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Booklist provides advance review of St. Barts Breakdown by award-winning novelist Don Bruns
Oceanview Publishing will release St. Barts Breakdown on March 1, 2008
In an advance review, Booklist calls St. Barts Breakdown “a Caribbean thriller with a ring tone amazingly like the near-Caribbean thrillers of Tim Dorsey and Tom Corcoran.” (Booklist, November 15, 2007)
In St. Barts Breakdown (Oceanview, ISBN: 978-1-933515-12-0, $24.95) Mick Sever is back with a new assignment: interview music legend Danny Murtz. One of the most successful producers in music history, Murtz has walls lined with gold and platinum records. But Danny Murtz’s closet is full of skeletons.
Known for producing an unbelievable string of hits, Murtz is also tied to a string of disappearances. Seems a number of Murtz’s romantic conquests have vanished into thin air. After his latest incident, Murtz conveniently retreats to his secluded St. Barts villa. Before Mick Sever can hop a plane to the island, he’s nearly run down by a speeding car. Coincidence? Maybe, but hitmaker Danny Murtz and near misses go hand in hand.
If Danny Murtz has it his way, Mick will only need a one-way ticket to paradise. Because if Mick isn’t careful, his next column will be an obituary – his obituary. Sun, sand, and a psychopath: it’s a deadly mix. With its finely tuned plot and off-the-charts action, St. Barts Breakdown is a rocking, rolling, and riveting read.
Susan Greger, Publisher at Oceanview, commented, “With a plot that unfolds at breakneck speed, and a narrative populated with a terrific mix of great characters from the imminently likeable Mick Sever to the dastardly Danny Murtz, St. Barts Breakdown is a shining example of why Don Bruns is the master of the music murder mystery.”
Don Bruns is an award-winning novelist, songwriter, musician and advertising executive. He is author of Stuff to Die For, as well as Jamaica Blue, Barbados Heat and South Beach Shakedown, a music murder mystery series featuring entertainment journalist Mick Sever. South Beach Shakedown was recently awarded top honors in the mystery/suspense/thriller category of both the Best Books 2006 awards sponsored by USA Book News, and the 2007 Indie Excellence Awards, sponsored by PubInsider magazine, and was named a finalist in the Benjamin Franklin Awards and the ForeWord magazine Book of the Year Awards. Don Bruns divides his time between
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