Day One by Bill Cameron appears to be the 3rd in his "ex-cop Skin Kadash" series of crime thriller novels, free courtesy of publisher Adams Media as their weekly fiction title. The
1st 4th in series,
County Line was a previous freebie offering in July of this year. It looks like 1 and 2 are from different publishers.
Currently free @
Amazon main (available to Canadians), and will likely also show up at
Sony in a few days time (linked for your pricedrop-check convenience). Does not seem to exist at all as an e-book in the UK or B&N catalogues, though it might get added before the promo ends.
Description
Born and raised in southern Oregon farm country, Elie Spaneker flees her home and abusive husband, unaware she's being tracked by an ex-cop in the hire of her vengeful father-in-law. In Portland, retired homicide detective Skin Kadash fills his idle days drinking coffee and searching for Eager Gillespie, a teen runaway of special interest as the only witness in a troublesome and long unsolved murder.
Eager, meanwhile, is on his own, grifting and working the angles in the homeless underground, oblivious to the unfolding events which will force him to face the consequences of a crime, and a longing, which has haunted him for years. These disparate trails converge at a bloody standoff, the harrowing end of a series of brutal crimes which trace a path from the high desert to the streets of Portland, committed by a perpetrator known only as Shadow.