A Sum of Destructions

Written by J.J. Campanella

Narrated by J.J. Campanella

Police psychologist Edwardo Bratenahl is a young widower, still mourning the tragic loss of his wife. Bratenahl, an academic and native of the insular Cleveland neighborhood of Little Italy, is asked to assist with the homicide investigation of world-class geneticist Dr. Simon Pederson, who was viciously slain during Sunday mass. Bratenahl is partnered with Mary Kate Calderon, veteran homicide detective. The two soon discover a related murder, which Calderon confesses looks eerily like a scenario she witnessed as a child in Nicaragua, with all the hallmarks of a Sandinista interrogator dubbed Diablo Rojo. Bratenahl brushes this off as coincidence, but the psychologist soon discovers just how perilous the world around him is, as he collides with the Red Devil, Simon Pederson’s legacy of destruction, and the weight of family history in this twisty, dark police procedural.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Uvula Publishing
• Release date: Oct 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9781666627220

J.J. Campanella

J.J. Campanella resides in New Jersey with his wife and teen children. He is a full-time professor of genetics and part-time book narrator of more than 80 novels. He has over 40 scientific publications to his credit, almost 2000 citations, and is the author of the first Eddy Bratenahl novel A Sum of Destructions and the controversial novella, Ex Sanctorum: the Full Armor of God. He is a former Sofanaut Award winner and shares the 2010 Hugo Award for the StarShipSofa Podcast. He holds 1st degree black belts in the Japanese swords arts of Muso Shinden-ryu and Shinto Hatakage-ryu and is a Tengu-Sho-level practitioner of Shinkage-ryu.