Bøger af Frank Lazarus

Lenny Goldstein & his company, Future Stars, evaluate high school and collegiate basketball talent and sell their rankings to colleges and NBA teams respectively. From its humble beginnings in 1975, Future Stars had grown into a behemoth, with fifteen NBA teams and seventy-eight colleges paying subscriptions for his rankings. Lenny is semi-retired these days, with his son and son-in-law running the business until he gets a call from an old buddy in Newport News, who wants him to come look at a high school kid , Lincoln Anderson in Emporia, Virginia. He believes everyone, including Future Stars, has overlooked this Anderson kid. Concurrently, Lenny gets a call from an old buddy, the iconic coach of Duke University, to see what he knows about the college decision of Tyler Longenecker, Future Star's #5 ranked high school senior from a premier prep school in the tony Boston suburbs. All seems to be going on script until graduation when both Lincoln and Tyler are involved with a death and a roofie rape. Suddenly, Lenny's getting calls about both kids. Lincoln's family is related to James McNeil in Philly and they call him for help. James and his buddy, Detective Vernon Brown of the Philly PD, jump into the car and head South on I-95. Can the two Sleuths from The Murder Gambit and The Phenom put these two puzzles together before college starts in September? Once again, Author Frank Lazarus has produced a gripping, suspenseful story that will keep you off Netflix for a day or two.

Even before he has played his first game in high school, it would seem nothing can stop Bo Campbell's meteoric rise to stardom in the basketball world. In Philadelphia, people are already comparing him to his Overbrook High School predecessor, Wilt Chamberlain. But his dreams are suddenly shattered when he is arrested for the murder of his best friend, Sherman Claxton. Detective Vernon Brown, and James McNeil, his friend and Bo's grandfather, search for the truth, but James goes rogue, and soon finds himself in the dangerous underbelly of the Philadelphia drug sub-culture, where the stakes are high and it's hard to tell who's friend and who's foe. This gripping story of crime and justice will keep you on the edge of your seat. If you enjoyed The Murder Gambit, you'll love this fast-paced mystery thriller set on the streets of Philadelphia.

An unexplained death in a nursing home. A man falls from a balcony. A hit and run in the middle of a city street. An execution in a home. A woman collapses dead after a date. Five murders. Five methods. Five police jurisdictions. What's the connection? Philadelphia-area detectives are under pressure to solve the murders, while dealing with their own issues. Speeding like the lead car at Talladega towards a shocking conclusion, is The Murder Gambit a Shakespearean tragedy or a sinister reality?