Dead Red
A Raymond Donne Mystery
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4.8 • 4 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Filled with the kinds of unexpected twists that make for the best crime fiction and with secrets that run far deeper than loyalties, Dead Red is the most thrilling mystery yet in Tim O'Mara's widely acclaimed series.
New York City school teacher Raymond Donne had no idea how bad his night was going to get when he picked up the phone. Ricky Torres, his old friend from his days as a cop, needs Ray's help, and he needs it right now in the middle of the night. Ricky picks Ray up in the taxi he has been driving since returning from serving as a Marine in Iraq, but before Ricky can tell Ray what's going on the windows of the taxi explode under a hail of bullets, killing Ricky and knocking Ray unconscious as he dives to pull Ricky out of harm's way.
Ray would've done anything to help Ricky out while he was alive. Now that he's dead, he'll go to the same lengths to find out who did it and why.
All he has to go on is that Ricky was working with Jack Knight, another ex-cop turned PI. They were investigating the disappearance of a PR giant's daughter who had ties to the same Brooklyn streets that all three of them used to work. Is that what got Ricky killed or was he into something even more dangerous? Was there anything that Ray could've done for him while he was alive? Is there anything he can do for him now?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
O'Mara's intricately plotted third outing for New York City-cop-turned-Brooklyn-teacher Ray Donne (after 2013's Crooked Numbers) opens with a bang. Ray and his old friend Ricky Torres, a former cop and ex-Marine who served in Iraq, are sitting in the front seat of Ricky's cab when it's riddled with bullets, killing Ricky and injuring Ray. Ricky had been working for Jack Knight, another ex-cop who now runs a PI agency, to locate Angela, the missing 16-year-old daughter of a public-relations mogul. To find out who targeted Ricky, Ray agrees to assist on the case, despite his long, acrimonious history with Jack. Ray's girlfriend, newspaper reporter Allison Rogers, and his uncle, NYPD chief of detectives Raymond Donne, lend support. O'Mara captures the world of New York politics and convincingly takes Ray into the mind-set of young veterans newly returned from war. Energetic storytelling and credible characters are a plus.
