Giovanni’s Bones

By Leonard Palmer

Fast forward to the weekend of July 4th, 1976. It is the year of the Bicentennial, America's 200th birthday. The city is already alive with excitement. Fireworks are popping. Johnny Jump finds himself standing in a lonely hospital room, watching an old lady gasp for breath. Johnny doesn't want to be here. He needs to be in his cab, hustling fares to make the rent on the apartment he shares with the beautiful Catherine Dupree. But Catherine Dupree is gone, off on one of her cloak and dagger missions.
The man who dragged Johnny to this unwanted tryst with a dying woman is one Crispus Attucks Smith. He wants Johnny to assist him in trying to find the whereabouts of Giovanni Crespi, the dying woman's son who went missing nearly three decades before.The bodies pile up as the awful truth of what happened all those years ago slowly reveals itself in....Giovanni's Bones.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Feb 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781312884403