The Virgil Cain Thrillers Books 1–3
By Brad Smith
DISCOVER A *COMPLETE* SERIES OF GRIPPING US CRIME THRILLERS.
Meet Virgil Cain he’s not your typical hero. An ex-baseball player, who landed himself in jail for assaulting a swindling lawyer. Now he’s moved to upstate New-York to stay out of trouble, but trouble always has a way of following him around.
Perfect for fans of Lee Child, C.J. Box, Paul Doiron and Nevada Barr.
FROM BOOK 1:
Superstar lawyer, Mickey Dupree, gets a legendary record producer off a murder charge. The victim’s husband, Virgil Cain, is overheard telling a crowded bar that ‘someone ought to blow Mickey’s head off’. So when Mickey turns up dead, Virgil is the obvious suspect. He’s thrown in jail by dim-witted detective Joe Brady. But Brady’s partner, Claire Marchand, isn’t convinced they’ve got the right guy. Virgil knows the police have no interest in capturing the real culprit. The only way to get to the truth is if he escapes custody and finds them himself. With only Claire on his side, he’s on a mission to uncover the real killer. Before the killer finds him . . .
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