Love Finds Max Royster at Christmas or Kissing in the Slush After Sixty

by Frank Hickey

Overview

Cold grips Manhattan.

The city throws a Unity Holiday Party, a dancing street fair to bring all together.

I, Max, 62, meet and flirt with a dark blonde beauty named Peg, a barmaid with no illusions left. Her looks and slangy streetwise talk hold me. At my age, she makes me smolder and feel 24 again.

No matter what it takes, I want her for mine.

But the plan smashes when a drunken Black man fights with a White rookie cop. The Black man dies and everyone hollers their own ideas about what really happened.

Seeing a chance to hit big on a settlement, I summon Nancy, a hooligan street-fighter with a lawyer's ticket. This kind of death means cash.

Peg is the only witness to the struggle between the drunken man and the cop. If I can run this, I can stop hustling forever.

Skip, another lawyer, Black, my nemesis-father figure, always scheming, hijacks Peg for his reward. His bodyguard, Joey, beats me in a fight.

The FBI and the radical group SAP -Stop Police Action- jump into this case. Trying to out-dance them, I go undercover in SAP and live like a radical.

Through freezing stakeout nights and bitter dawns, I must find Peg and love at Christmas

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780997071948
Publisher:	Frank Hickey
Publication date:	12/01/2017
Series:	Max Royster Mystery , #8
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.36(d)

Editorial Reviews

“Author Frank Hickey has choreographed another page turner. Sleuth Max Royster shimmies his way through one night of death, stratagem and love, dazzling us with his sharp wit and exhaustive knowledge of what could and does happen in the City that Never Sleeps. Clever narration compels the reader to bury themselves in the life and perils of Hickey's unrivaled flatfoot Max as he snoops and solves.” ~ Kathleen Barry (Former co-conspirator of this adroit scribe and even more talented investigator)



“It takes a real talent to use present-day officers involved in ‘everybody's fault, nobody's fault’ confrontations, then throw in an affair of the heart and non-stop excitement to keep you reading.” ~ Chris Christensen (Electronic Engineer, Deputy, San Bernardino Sheriff's Department [Ret.], Vocational Archeologist)



"Frank Hickey gets it right again – with the perfect mixture of love, suspense and realism. The colorful characters that fill up this cobblestone-rugged tapestry of New York come to vividly memorable life in this authentic tale." ~ Robert Bocchino (New York City Peace Officer)



"Hickey's prose cuts all the fat off a chuck steak. Max Royster is more hardboiled than a 15-minute egg, best served with bicarbonate of soda after a hard night. Hickey's work is outstanding, each scene packing a knockout punch. " ~ John Donnelly (Forensic Photographer, Cinematographer)

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