I am thrilled to announce that
my Detective Tony Alfano detective novel CHICAGO SWING won a second place
silver medal for 2016 from the Global Ebook Awards. To be selected as one of
the top 2016 mystery-thrillers for this award is both gratifying and humbling.
Dan Poynter, who passed away this past year, was the guru and cultural driver
behind self-publishing for the past thirty years and began the Global Ebook
Awards. He laid the groundwork for most of us independent writers and
publishers to follow and was there offering support and hurrahs. He was also
one of the earliest in the industry to understand the magnitude and impact that
ebooks would have on the publishing industry. I attended a conference two years
before the iPad rolled into town and Dan was there, along with Mark Coker of
Smashwords, talking indie-publishing and how ebooks would reach millions more
than the old traditional methods of publishing. He is missed and the publishing
industry is poorer for not having him here.
CHICAGO SWING is available next
weekend for $1.99 at Amazon along with the second in the series, CHICAGO JAZZ.
If you want to get a feel for Chicago in 1933, download a copy now.
What you will get:
For Chicago police
detective Tony Alfano, it was not like most mornings. Today it was five
bombings throughout the Loop, two hundred pounds of missing dynamite, and one
dead Hungarian in an alley off Washington Street. Is it the Outfit, the Mob,
Bolsheviks, or the unions? In the dark speakeasies and nightclubs of Chicago’s
underworld, Alfano treads the sharp edge of sanity and delusion, praying that
it’s just mob vengeance and not typical Chicago politics.
In Depression
racked Chicago, three people crash into each other, each hoping for vengeance,
redemption, and salvation. Alfano thought he’d seen it all in his twenty years
on the force, but this is brutally and explosively different. Can he stop the
killer or will the killer get to him first?
. . . . and to add
pressure, the city’s corrupt mayor demands that Alfano catch the killer before
the gates to the Century of Progress World’s Fair and Chicago are opened to
America and the world.
