Hi, everyone!
Today I am sharing my Feature Post and Book Review for A FINAL CALL (A Stacy Tavitt Thriller) by Eliot Parker on this Black Coffee Book Tour.
Below you will find an about the book section, my book review, an about the author section and the author’s social media links. Enjoy!
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About the Book
Homicide Detective Stacy Tavitt has too much on her plate. Her delinquent brother is in deep trouble and now he’s gone missing. Is he in danger? Is he dead? And an old college friend has a missing son, Colton, and is counting on Tracy to track him down. But Stacy’s last investigation has left her physically sick and at risk of being invalided out. She has a lot to prove and time isn’t on her side. Nor, it would appear, are some of her colleagues.
At first, there is little reason to suspect foul play in Colton’s disappearance – until he becomes the primary suspect in the brutal murder of an ex-girlfriend.
There are dirty cops in the force and dirty business at every turn. It’s a race against the clock as Stacy searches for the truth about her brother, the location of her friend’s son, and the mystery of a killer who is targeting her friend’s family.
She needs answers, even if she has to break the rules to find them. This time it’s personal.
A FINAL CALL
By Eliot Parker
- Genre: Detective thriller, murder mystery
- Print length: 260 pages
- Age range: This is an adult novel
- Trigger warnings: Graphic violence; sexual violence; homicide
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My Book Review
RATING: 4 out of 5 Stars
A FINAL CALL (A Stacy Tavitt Thriller Book #2) by Eliot Parker is an edge-of-your-seat thriller with a memorable female detective protagonist. This second book has a new crime and investigation plot, but characters and some plot points carry over from book one, Code for Murder, so I feel these books are best read in order.
Lieutenant Stacy Tavitt is a detective in the Cleveland PD Robbery /Homicide unit who is contacted by a former college classmate who seeks her help to find her missing son, Colton. While she agrees to help, she is reluctant to investigate until his girlfriend is found brutally murdered and he is the prime suspect. As Stacy and her partner work the case, people tied to Colton continue to end up dead.
At the same time, Stacy is still trying to find her missing brother and learning to live with thoracic outlet syndrome both tied to the last case she worked. When the dirty cop her brother was last seen with ends up dead in police custody, Stacy feels time is running out to find him alive.
I read this book all in one sitting. Stacy is such a compelling protagonist with her sense of duty which conflicts with her love of her brother and also having to work with a debilitating breathing condition. She is a character that pulls you in and is written believably with her messy life and relationships. I believe the author did a good job of bringing needed information forward from book one, but I do wish I had read it first. The plot is full of realistic action, violence, and big city crime with a consistently fast pace. The investigation led me on a twisted chase with a satisfying conclusion to both cases, but the surprise ending….not so much and that is the only reason I did not give this book a five star rating.
This is an exciting thriller and I really enjoyed it, but the surprise ending will be either loved or not by the reader. No spoilers here.
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About the Author
Eliot Parker is the author of the short story collection SNAPSHOTS, which won the 2020 PenCraft Literary Award and the 2021 Feathered Quill Book Award for Short Story Anthology. His thriller novel, A Knife’s Edge, was an Amazon #1 bestseller and is currently being optioned as a television series by Voyage Media and Screenworks Entertainment. Eliot has received the West Virginia Literary Merit Award for his works and has also been a finalist for the Southern Book Prize in Thriller Writing in 2017 for his novel Fragile Brilliance. He hosts the podcast program, Now Appalachia, which profiles authors, editors, and publishers in the Appalachian region. A graduate of the Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University with his M.F.A. in Creative Writing and a graduate of Murray State University with his Doctorate in English, Eliot teaches writing that the University of Mississippi.
Social Media Links
Website: https://www.eliotparker.com
Facebook: facebook.com/eliot.parker.98
Twitter: https://twitter.com/e4419
Purchase Link
http://mybook.to/Amazon_FinalCallEP
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