Bücher von Lou Berney

When an aimless drifter witnesses a case of child endangerment, he finds his purpose in seeking justice suspenseful and heart-wrenching thriller from the award-winning author of November Road.

JFK is dead, and Frank Guidry is running for his life. A long-time lieutenant to notorious New Orleans mob boss Carlos Marcello, Frank knows too much about the crime of the century: the assassination of the president. Within hours of the murder, everyone with ties to Marcello is disappearing, and Guidry knows he's next. With no good options, he hits the road.The first rule of running is ?don't stop,? but when Guidry sees a housewife on the side of the road with a broken-down car and two young daughters in the back seat, he sees the perfect disguise to cover his tracks. Charlotte is on the run too, from a stifling small-town life and a hopeless marriage. Posing as an insurance man, Guidry offers to help Charlotte reach her destination, and desperate, she accepts. It's an American story: two strangers meet to share the open road west, a dream, a hope?and find each other on the way. But Guidry's ruthless hunters are closing in on him. And if he can't bring himself to leave the woman he's come to love, it might get them all killed.

Like Carl Hiaasen, Berney delights in the cartoonish. Like Elmore Leonard, he can drive a plot. What sets him apart is how well he evokes love, making the romanceas compelling as the mystery.Boston GlobeLou Berney immediately earned a seat of honor at the mystery masters table with his crackling caper novel, Gutshot Straighta lightning-fast, fiendishly clever suspenser that screamed for a sequel. And here it is. Former professional wheel man Charles Shake Bouchon is back, living in the Caribbean paradise of Belize with his lawless past far behind himuntil a gunshot tears through his beachside restaurant and hes on the run again. A twisting tale filled with lawmen, con men, and hit men; a beautiful but deadly FBI agent; and a murderous thug named Baby Jesus, Whiplash River recalls the best of the off-the-wall crime fiction impresariosElmore Leonard, Carl Hiaasen, James W. Hall, Robert Ferrigno, Tim Dorseywhile establishing its own unique orbit in the noir universe.

In the summer of 1986, two tragedies rocked Oklahoma City. Six movie-theater employees were brutally killed in an armed robbery. Then a teenage girl vanished from the annual state fair. Neither crime was ever solved.Twenty-five years later, the reverberations of those unsolved cases continue to echo through the lives of those devastated by the crimes. Wyatt, the one teenage employee who inexplicably survived the movie-theater massacre, is now a private investigator in Las Vegas. A case unexpectedly brings him back to a hometown and a past he's tried to escape?and drags him deeper into the harrowing mystery of the movie-house robbery that left six of his friends dead.Like Wyatt, Julianna struggles with the past?specifically the day her beautiful older sister, Genevieve, disappeared at the fair. When Julianna discovers that one of the original suspects has resurfaced, she'll stop at nothing to find answers.As Wyatt's case becomes more complicated and dangerous, and Julianna seeks answers from a ghost, their obsessive quests not only stir memories of youth and first love, but also begin to illuminate dark secrets of the past. Even if they find the truth, will it help them understand what happened and why they were left behind that long and faraway gone summer? Will it set them free?or ultimately destroy them?