Yesterday's Echo
Book description
Winner of the Anthony Award for Best First Novel
A dishonored ex-cop's desperate chance for redemption
While never convicted of his wife's murder, Rick was never exonerated either. Not by the police. Not by the media. Not even by himself. Eight years later, police suspicion and his own guilt remain…
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I’ve never been able to resist the allure of a mystery with the fast, hard-driving pace of a Chandler-style noir story, the kind that Matt Coyle serves up in Yesterday’s Echo, the first in his Rick Cahill series.
Cahill is the perfect old-style protagonist: tough, honest, noble, and haunted by the past. An ex-cop and one-time suspect in his wife’s murder, he’s spent eight years building a new life when a beautiful woman tempts him with love.
After she’s arrested for murder, Cahill is drawn into a vicious web that again paints him as a potential killer and pulls…
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