Love, Pride, & Murder is an entertaining novel, the kind readers can just lose themselves in and shut the world out. It is a mystery featuring a private investigator who doesn’t play to type. Along the way, the story features spies, assassins, and an assortment of unsavory deeds all helping to create a surprise ending.
“Thomas Bradley Stone, the detective, was drawn to be multi-dimensional, and not a cliché,” asserts author Dennis A. Feece. “He has a past, much of which is necessarily buried, and this gives him a mysterious edge at times.”
Love, Pride, and Murder is a murder mystery, taking place in New Hampshire, primarily Concord and upstate, near Hanover, and Woodstock. A young woman hires the PI to investigate a supposed accident that she believes to have been a murder. The plot is woven around the investigation.
The story unfolds in the first-person, as told by T.B. Stone, the PI. He is decidedly not hard-boiled. Nor is he painfully rational. Instead, he tends to conjure up solutions inductively with the help of friends and colleagues.
Over the course of the investigation, we learn about Stone, his client, Lucia Nardone, and a number of friends/colleagues who help to solve the case. Central among those are the PI’s secretary, his lifelong attorney friend, a Concord police detective, a covert intelligence officer, and several others. The case revolves around an important local family with collective business ties to the region and internationally. The plot is driven by action, romance, humor, and the characters’ personalities.
The plot unfolds largely through encounters with others and is driven by relationships that form along the way. As an example, as the novel progresses, Stone finds himself falling for his client, who ultimately helps him crack the case.
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