THANKS FOR KILLING ME is the first novel from veteran journalist Bill Barol.
Meet Ray Finney, a charming but dim con man, and Shelly Muzzo, the ex-LAPD detective who looks after him. The partners have a good thing going with a fake murder-for-hire scam, and the future looks bright… until they try to con Robin Tandy. Robin isn’t about to be conned. She has other plans, like finding an escape from her deadening marriage to a wealthy investor. That’s when the tables turn. Then they turn again. Before the three know what’s happening they find themselves racing the clock in a 40-foot, $500,000 motor coach, accompanied by the con men’s previous victims and a ...
THANKS FOR KILLING ME is the first novel from veteran journalist Bill Barol.
Meet Ray Finney, a charming but dim con man, and Shelly Muzzo, the ex-LAPD detective who looks after him. The partners have a good thing going with a fake murder-for-hire scam, and the future looks bright… until they try to con Robin Tandy. Robin isn’t about to be conned. She has other plans, like finding an escape from her deadening marriage to a wealthy investor. That’s when the tables turn. Then they turn again. Before the three know what’s happening they find themselves racing the clock in a 40-foot, $500,000 motor coach, accompanied by the con men’s previous victims and a yellow Lab named Laz, and pursued toward the bright lights of Las Vegas by a remorseless ex-Marine who works as a fixer for Robin’s husband.
Bill Barol is a former Senior Writer at Newsweek, where he authored cover stories on David Letterman, Bruce Springsteen, Andrew Wyeth, and The End of the Eighties, as well as dozens of inside stories on pop culture, entertainment and the arts. His freelance journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Time, Slate, The Boston Globe, Fast Company, Washington Journalism Review, American Journalism Review, American Heritage and TV Guide, and on PBS. He's also been a writer/producer on television comedies including "Anything But Love," "Cafe Americain" and "Townies." He lives in Santa Monica, CA.
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THANKS FOR KILLING ME is the first novel from veteran journalist Bill Barol.Meet Ray Finney, a charming but dim con man, and Shelly Muzzo, the ex-LAPD detective who looks after him. The partners have a good thing going with a fake murder-for-hire scam, and the future looks bright… until they try to con Robin Tandy. Robin isn’t about to be conned. She has other plans, like finding an escape from her deadening marriage to a wealthy investor. That’s when the tables turn. Then they turn again. Before the three know what’s happening they find themselves racing the clock in a 40-foot, $500,000 motor coach, accompanied by the con men’s previous victims and a ...