Quite Perfectly Dead: Cards and Crime in Vegas and Montreal

by Geri Newell Gillen, Geri Newell

Overview

Poker Anyone?

Joe Cameron, a Montreal ex-cop turned Private Eye, is hired by a woman to investigate the death of her brother, which occurred within hours of playing in a poker tournament in Las Vegas. The local police have concluded that the death was a suicide, but the sister doesn't buy it. Cameron flies to Vegas to find out the truth. The suicide theory appears to hold water, and Cameron returns to Montreal with the corpse. But after a second body is discovered in Vegas, under very similar circumstances, an investigation is launched and a cross-border task force is formed between Vegas and Montreal. The Vegas cop who worked both crime scenes is sent to Montreal to partner with a cop who happens to be Cameron's best friend. Cameron jumps in with both feet to help, his passion for solving crimes only surpassed by his love of women, booze, poker, and Asian food.

Shuffle up and deal!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781928049456
Publisher:	Geri Newell
Publication date:	10/20/2016
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Geri Newell Gillen was born in Ottawa, Canada. She grew up in Montreal, on a steady diet of Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden. She was educated in Montreal and held numerous jobs which included Chimpanzee babysitter, program typist for the Festival international du film en 16mm, and McGill University Library shelf-stacker. She finally settled on a career as a Research Technologist for a large manufacturing firm.
Following early retirement, she appeased her aspiration of writing by chronicling 200 years of Newell family history. In researching and writing these genealogical stories, and uncovering a multitude of mysteries along the way, she was drawn to writing a fictional mystery. Combining her love of poker and her quarter-century marriage to an amusing pub-loving Glaswegian, "Quite Perfectly Dead" was born.

Geri Newell Gillen was born in Ottawa, Canada. She grew up in Montreal, on a steady diet of Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden. She was educated in Montreal and held numerous jobs which included Chimpanzee babysitter, program typist for the Festival international du film en 16mm, and McGill University Library shelf-stacker. She finally settled on a career as a Research Technologist for a large manufacturing firm.
Following early retirement, she appeased her aspiration of writing by chronicling 200 years of Newell family history. In researching and writing these genealogical stories, and uncovering a multitude of mysteries along the way, she was drawn to writing a fictional mystery. Combining her love of poker and her quarter-century marriage to an amusing pub-loving Glaswegian, "Quite Perfectly Dead" was born.

Editorial Reviews

"The scenes Geri Newell Gillen told from the killer's POV left me with a chill. Well done." -- Dietrich Kalteis, Author of 'Triggerfish'
"The premise of the book is entirely believable, and it held my interest throughout." -- Gerry Fostaty, 'Ottawa Review of Book'
"Gillen cleverly whipsaws the reader from Las Vegas to Montreal, and back again." -- David Whellams, Author of 'The Verdict on Each Man Dead'

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