Southbeach Shakedown, by Don Bruns, is free in the Kindle store, courtesy of Oceanview Publishing.
Book Description
Mick Sever lands in the middle of a Miami music mystery. Ginny, commissioned to write the biography of music icon Gideon Pike, calls Mick in need of help. Seems Pike is missing and it’s up to Mick to look into the disappearance of the legendary musician. Pike, whom Mick befriended early in Pike’s career, has “disappeared” before, but this time – did he disappear because he wanted to, or because he had to?
Soon Mick and Ginny launch an all-out hunt for the flamboyant performer. But after a series of too-close close calls, frighteningly near near-misses, and murders, Mick must question just how well he knows Gideon. How much access had Gideon granted him? What – or from whom – is Gideon hiding?
As Mick and Ginny delve deeper into Gideon’s world, they are introduced to an unseemly cast of shady characters and pulled into a shadowy underworld replete with crooked contracts, blackmail and dirty deals. And Mick and Ginny aren’t the only ones looking for Gideon Pike. Jimmy Shinn, a ruthless Korean mobster, is hot on Gideon’s trail, and it is clear that chart hits aren’t necessarily the only hits that reign in this business.