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Made Safe: Book 1 in The Moses Winter Mysteries Kindle Edition
"MADE SAFE is a fantastic thrill ride that eschews the clichéd Los Angeles detective and focuses on Moses Winter, a private investigator straight from America’s heartland. Deeply plotted and populated by fully-rounded characters, MADE SAFE never gives the reader an excuse to stop reading. Author Francis Sparks has crafted a taut, nuanced thriller that leaves the reader begging for more." - Craig A. Hart, Author of the Shelby Alexander Thriller Series
For Private Investigator, Moses Winter, the job just got more complicated. His adultery case has taken a violent turn landing the subject of his investigation, Fred Dunsmore, in the hospital and Moses in jail. Moses is held for questioning along with his erratic client, Sharon Dunsmore, and Fred’s mistress, a Bosnian refugee who just happens to be related to the DCI agent investigating the case, Raif Rakić.
After Rakić secures their release, Fred goes missing, and Moses Winter finds himself compelled to find him. With the assistance of Rakic, Moses unravels Fred's ties to Des Moines's underworld and is forced to confront the most heinous crimes of his career.
"Fans of hard-boiled detective novels will love MADE SAFE. A tough, smart, dogged PI in Moses Winter.; a set-up that jumps to life from page 1; dialogue that snaps, mobsters, suspect cops, and femme fatales, MADE SAFE has it all." Eric Rickstad ~ author of The Names of Dead Girls
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJanuary 13, 2017
- File size2228 KB
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"Francis Sparks' MADE SAFE is a gripping, fast-paced and hard hitting thriller. Sparks' depiction of the gritty underbelly of the heartland will grab you by the throat and not let go. Hold on tight for a wild ride." Heather Gudenkauf NYT bestselling author of The Weight of Silence
"MADE SAFE is a fantastic thrill ride that eschews the clichéd Los Angeles detective and focuses on Moses Winter, a private investigator straight from America's heartland. Deeply plotted and populated by fully-rounded characters, MADE SAFE never gives the reader an excuse to stop reading. Author Francis Sparks has crafted a taut, nuanced thriller that leaves the reader begging for more." - Craig A. Hart, Author of the Shelby Alexander Thriller Series
About the Author
Product details
- ASIN : B01N6R0UQ1
- Publisher : Pandamoon Publishing; 1st edition (January 13, 2017)
- Publication date : January 13, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 2228 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 220 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 1945502231
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About the author
Francis Sparks grew up on a farm in Iowa where he spent his days avoiding bulls and other livestock as he created castles in the pasture with odds and ends from the machine shed and his imagination.
In middle school, he fell in love with reading when he discovered TSR/Wizard of the Coast’s treasure trove of fantasy novels and he began to dream of one day becoming a writer. Working as a librarian’s assistant in college, he stumbled upon The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler and quickly devoured all of his novels and Francis’s love of the mystery/detective story was born.
In his early thirties, Francis began chasing his dream of becoming an author and began writing seriously. That dream came true when his debut novel Made Safe was signed by Pandamoon Publishing in late 2015. Francis Sparks currently lives in Des Moines, Iowa with his amazing wife, Kelly. If he’s not working on his next novel or short story, you can find him teaching his children about dragons.
His debut crime novel, Made Safe comes out January 17, 2017, from Pandamoon Publishing.
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I’m glad I took the time to read Made Safe.
Familiar, but not crammed with predictable turns and worn-out tropes, Francis Sparks debut is a crisp page-turner that had this reader interested from chapter one.
The well-drawn protagonist, Moses Winter is an imperfect person and an imperfect detective. I like this as it makes him actually seem human. The secondary characters have decent depth, particularly Majka, and the subject matter is, unfortunately, very real. (even in Iowa)
All in all Made Safe is well worth the read, and I feel that Sparks writing is only going to get better in future works.