Old Church (A Johnny & Maggie O'Brien Mystery)

by Lee Capp

Overview

Thirty years ago, three eight-year-old boys entered a summer woods, never to emerge again—alive that is. Their naked, butchered and lifeless bodies were discovered the next day, and three young area men were soon arrested and convicted for the sensational triple homicide. Finally released from prison after serving nearly two decades, a famous Hollywood movie producer and director engages the professional services of private detective Johnny O’Brien to reinvestigate the old crime and prove the innocence of the three men. What’s more, he means business—BIG business, offering Johnny the retainer of a cool one-million dollars, and a no limit platinum credit card. Intrigued by the old cold case, Johnny and his wife, Maggie, embark on what will soon become a personal crusade to uncover the truth and reveal the real reason for the riveting and shockingly ugly crime that had gripped the nation so long ago. Based on a real-life crime.

Lee Capp is the author of three previous Johnny O’Brien mystery novels (with a twist of fantasy) in The Watchmaker series: Time Enough to Die: Book One, Elliott Bay: Book Two, and The Reckoning: Book Three.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940166059598
Publisher:	Lee Capp
Publication date:	04/30/2023
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	959 KB

About the Author

Lee Capp (Larry Lee Caplin) was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1949, back when the Motor City was the crown jewel of the Midwest, and the center of the manufacturing might of America. Raised on motors and Motown and brought up in a tiny suburb called Walled Lake, he had a very misspent youth focused on rock and roll music, amusement parks, good friends (some of which were even girls) movies, golden age television shows and fortunately lots of really good books. Personal favorites among them were the popular anthologies of Alfred Hitchcock and Dorothy Sayers and the crime novels of Ellery Queen and Mickey Spillane. In addition to being a life-long writer of what he calls "Unsold and unsellable dumb stupid stuff" Capp has worked in many fields during his long career, including a short but very interesting stint as an apprentice embalmer in a Tucson, Arizona funeral home and a fish monger in Seattle, Washington. The fish selling he has said was equivalent to an advanced college degree in the study of human nature. Johnny O'Brien is a compilation of Capp himself, who descends from Irish, Scottish and English farmers, fishermen and lumberjack immigrants, and he says, a number of other (verbally at least) bad-assed friends of his youth. Capp says that "if we all were even a tenth as tough as we thought we were, we could have ruled the world." Lee Capp and his wife Bea, retired at last from the workaday world, now reside among the pines, ponds and streams outside Seattle, Washington, where he continues to see just how much trouble he can get Johnny O'Brien and Matt McCabe into the next time around. Contact the author at [e-mail], On Facebook as Larry Lee Caplin (Lee Capp) and [e-mail]