A Leprechaun's Lament
A LEPRECHAUN’S LAMENT by Wayne Zurl
A stipulation of the Patriot Act gave Chief Sam Jenkins an easy job; investigate all the civilians working for the Prospect Police Department. But what looked like a routine chore to the gritty ex-New York detective, turned into a nightmare. Preliminary inquiries reveal a middle-aged employee didn’t exist prior to 1975.
Murray McGuire spent the second half of his life repairing office equipment for the small city of Prospect, Tennessee, but the police can’t find a trace of the first half.
After uncovering nothing but dead ends during the background investigation and frustrations running at flood level, Jenkins finds his subject lying face down in a Smoky Mountain creek bed—murdered assassination-style.
By calling in favors from old friends and new acquaintances, the chief enlists help from a local FBI agent, a deputy director of the CIA, British intelligence services, and the Irish Garda to learn the man’s real identity and uncover the trail of an international killer seeking revenge in the Great Smoky Mountains.
A LEPRECHAUN’S LAMENT is the 2nd full-length Sam Jenkins mystery. The first, A NEW PROSPECT, won an Indie and was named best mystery at the 2011 Independent Publisher’s Book Awards. It is currently on the short list of finalists for the grand prize at the 2012 Eric Hoffer Book Awards, and has been nominated for a Montaigne Medal.
Fourteen Sam Jenkins novelettes have been produced as audio books and simultaneously published as eBooks.
Read summaries and excerpts for all the Sam Jenkins police mysteries at: http://waynezurlbooks.net or go directly to the sellers at: http://amazon.com/author/waynezurl or http://barnesandnoble.com/s/wayne-zurl
A stipulation of the Patriot Act gave Chief Sam Jenkins an easy job; investigate all the civilians working for the Prospect Police Department. But what looked like a routine chore to the gritty ex-New York detective, turned into a nightmare. Preliminary inquiries reveal a middle-aged employee didn’t exist prior to 1975.
Murray McGuire spent the second half of his life repairing office equipment for the small city of Prospect, Tennessee, but the police can’t find a trace of the first half.
After uncovering nothing but dead ends during the background investigation and frustrations running at flood level, Jenkins finds his subject lying face down in a Smoky Mountain creek bed—murdered assassination-style.
By calling in favors from old friends and new acquaintances, the chief enlists help from a local FBI agent, a deputy director of the CIA, British intelligence services, and the Irish Garda to learn the man’s real identity and uncover the trail of an international killer seeking revenge in the Great Smoky Mountains.
A LEPRECHAUN’S LAMENT is the 2nd full-length Sam Jenkins mystery. The first, A NEW PROSPECT, won an Indie and was named best mystery at the 2011 Independent Publisher’s Book Awards. It is currently on the short list of finalists for the grand prize at the 2012 Eric Hoffer Book Awards, and has been nominated for a Montaigne Medal.
Fourteen Sam Jenkins novelettes have been produced as audio books and simultaneously published as eBooks.
Read summaries and excerpts for all the Sam Jenkins police mysteries at: http://waynezurlbooks.net or go directly to the sellers at: http://amazon.com/author/waynezurl or http://barnesandnoble.com/s/wayne-zurl