Thomas & Mercer
Featuring: Gabriel Velasquez; Ella Broden
348 pages ISBN: 1477822593 EAN: 9781477822593 Kindle: B01M8PI4IG Trade Size / e-Book Add to Wish List
DEAD CERTAIN by Adam Mitzner is a psychological thriller.
Once you start
reading this masterful suspense tale, you will be
immediately trying to figure out WHO and WHY?
It is the story of two sisters, Ella and Charlotte Broden,
living in Manhattan. Ella is an attorney working in her
father's impressive criminal defense firm, after rising to
become an assistant DA as a successful prosecutor. Her first
love is music and she wanted music to be her career. When
her mother died of cancer, Ella opted to attend law school
thinking that would impress her father. Ella is a lawyer by
day but every Wednesday night, completely disguised, she
becomes Cassidy, a lounge singer at a seedy lounge, Lava,
for open mic in the East Village. That's her secret!
Charlotte is a wanna-be writer studying for her Master of
Fine Arts at NYU. She lives in the apartment her father
bought her with an African American artist, Zack. He has
never sold a painting, is moody and not a favorite of Ella.
The sisters are close and in contact every day but each hold
secrets from the other they are unwilling to share. what is
hers?
When Ella receives an excited call from Charlotte promising
"great news," she meets her sister at their favorite diner
and immediately is told, "I sold my book. It will be
published as soon as the other half is finished." She hands
her manuscript to Ella. It is titled DEAD CERTAIN and
dedicated to her sister. She excitedly asks her to read it.
They are unable to continue their celebration as Ella
receives a call demanding she return to the office to meet
with a new and important client. Ella packs the manuscript
into her handbag and kisses her sister goodbye. She never
sees her again.
Adam Mitzner writes a skillfully crafted, who-done-it with
many twists and shocks. It is actually a story within a
story, the time frame is ten days and the tale is many
layered. You are introduced to a bevy of characters and
each time you ask, "is he the murderer?" DEAD CERTAIN is a
masterful
suspense filled saga that will have you turning the pages to
reach the dynamic finale. It's a great read that engaged,
compelled, and challenged me. Mitzner has a new fan. I loved
it!
Ella Broden is living a double life.
By day, Ella works as a buttoned-up attorney on some of the
city’s most grueling cases. By night, she pursues her
passion for singing in the darkest clubs of Manhattan.
No one knows her secret, not even Charlotte, the younger
sister she practically raised. But it seems she’s not the
only one in the family with something to hide. When
Charlotte announces she’s sold her first novel, Ella
couldn’t be more thrilled…until she gets a call that her
sister’s gone missing.
Ella starts investigating with the help of Detective Gabriel
Velasquez, an old flame in the NYPD, and what she finds is
shocking. If art imitates life, then her sister’s novel may
contain details of her real-life affairs. And any one of her
lovers could be involved in her disappearance.
Desperate to bring Charlotte home, Ella works through her
list of suspects, matching fictitious characters with
flesh-and-blood men. But will it be too late to save the
sister she only thought she knew?
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