Speak Ill of the Living
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Everybody thought the banker surprised by car-jackers was dead and buried until a photograph of him taken by his captors turns up. If the banker is alive, then whose ashes are buried in his grave? Eddie's chase after the story takes him across many neighborhoods of his home and crime beat, Lowell, Massachusetts, and deep into his own famiy's dark secrets. What he hears are the echoes of a forgotten crime. What he finds are bodies blocking his path.... Someone is killing off his sources. High tension, dark doings, and a real surprise mark this exciting novel.
Mark Arsenault
Mark Arsenault has covered national politics, gambling, and worked on Spotlight Team investigations as a staff reporter for the Boston Globe, which won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing. This is his first nonfiction book.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is the 2nd and last book in Mark Arsenault's Eddie Bourque Series. I read the first book in the series called Spiked about 3 years ago. I enjoyed it so much that I contacted Mark Arsenault, a journalist from Rhode Island, and asked him when he was going to write more books. He said that he has a wife and 3 children and needs a steady job to support them and that he would write more books in the future. I've been holding off reading this last one as I have been cherishing it and have finally succumbed. I must say that I am not disappointed in Mark Arsenault's writing as I have found it to be a fast-paced, humor-filled page turner just like the first book. I love the main character, Eddie Bourque, who is a hard-nosed freelance reporter and a great mystery solver too. He's smart, intuitive, stubborn and never quits when he is on track chasing down the baddies. I found all the characters to be well-drawn and very unique. The plot was tense and the ending was very suspenseful. I am now looking forward to that time in the future when Mark will once again take up his writing skills and turn out more Eddie Bourque novels. I highly recommend his books to those who love mystery books that are witty and humor-filled.