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WHAT YOU BREAK

What You Break, February 2017
Gus Murphy
by Reed Farrel Coleman

Putnam
Featuring: Gus Murphy
368 pages
ISBN: 0399173048
EAN: 9780399173042
Kindle: B00WDP82KA
Hardcover / e-Book
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"Grief doesn't get easier even with time"

Fresh Fiction Review

WHAT YOU BREAK
Reed Farrel Coleman

Reviewed by Sharon Salituro
Posted October 16, 2017

Suspense | Thriller

Gus Murphy still has not gotten over the death of his son but as the saying goes, life goes on. Gus is working at the Paragon Hotel, driving the shuttle bus from the airport to the hotel and this job is nothing compared to his former job as a policeman.

Gus has always been friends with Bill, a former priest who helped Gus deal with the death of his son. Now Gus gets a call from Bill who has someone that he wants Gus to meet. Gus agrees and meets Micah Spears who wants Gus to investigate the murder of his granddaughter LT. They have caught the man who did it, but Micah wants to know why she was brutally murdered.

While investigating Gus finds out his friend Salazar is somehow involved in all of this. But what is the connection to these two? Salazar is now in hiding, but Gus is having a hard time because no one will give him a straight answer. The more and more that Gus tries to find out the answers more people are in danger.

Reed Farrel Coleman writes a fantastic thriller. I was at the edge of my seat trying to figure out what was going to happen next. Coleman also writes how hard it is for a parent to go through the death of a child. Coleman shows how it can tear a family apart, no matter how hard they try. Sometimes the parents get back together, just to share the misery.

Coleman also shows how even though some police are not proven to be criminals, the cops that stood behind them, will do anything to protect their images. I also enjoyed the fact that he shows how true friends stick together no matter what the problem is.

WHAT YOU BREAK is a thriller from a fantastic storyteller that you don't want to miss!

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SUMMARY

From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author comes a gritty, atmospheric new series about the other side of Long Island, far from the wealth of the Hamptons, where real people liveβ€”and die. Gus Murphy thought he had the world all figured out. A retired Suffolk County cop, Gus had everything a man could want: a great marriage, two kids, a nice house, and the rest of his life ahead of him. But when tragedy strikes, his life is thrown into complete disarray. In the course of a single deadly moment, his family is blown apart and he is transformed from a man who believes he understands everything into a man who understands nothing. Divorced and working as a courtesy van driver for the run-down hotel in which he has a room, Gus has settled into a mindless, soulless routine that barely keeps his grief at arm’s length. But Gus’s comfortable waking trance comes to an end when ex-con Tommy Delcamino asks him for help. Four months earlier, Tommy’s son T.J.’s battered body was discovered in a wooded lot, yet the Suffolk County PD doesn’t seem interested in pursuing the killers. In desperation, Tommy seeks out the only cop he ever trustedβ€”Gus Murphy. Gus reluctantly agrees to see what he can uncover. As he begins to sweep away the layers of dust that have collected over the case during the intervening months, Gus finds that Tommy was telling the truth. It seems that everyone involved with the late T.J Delcaminoβ€”from his best friend, to a gang enforcer, to a mafia capo, and even the policeβ€”has something to hide, and all are willing to go to extreme lengths to keep it hidden. It’s a dangerous favor Gus has taken on as he claws his way back to take a place among the living, while searching through the sewers for a killer.

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BOOK SERIES

Gus Murphy

Where it Hurts
WHERE IT HURTS
#1.0 β€’ January 2016
What You Break
WHAT YOU BREAK
#2.0 β€’ February 2017