Lost Tomorrows (6) (The Rick Cahill Series)
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Lost Tomorrows (6) (The Rick Cahill Series)

Hardcover – December 3, 2019

Price
$10.14
Format
Hardcover
Pages
368
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1608092451
Dimensions
6.25 x 1.2 x 9.25 inches
Weight
1.38 pounds

Description

“Sharp, suspenseful, and poignant, Lost Tomorrows hits like a breaking wave and pulls readers into its relentless undertow. Matt Coyle is at the top of his game.” —Meg Gardiner, Edgar Award-winning author“Like the entire Cahill series, Lost Tomorrows is suspenseful, tightly written, full of curve balls and memorable characters and very, very smart.” —Joe Ide, Shamus Award-winning author“Southern California has turned out its fair share of thriller and noir superstars—some of them transplants, of course, before making their names on the west coast—such as Michael Connelly, Robert Crais, T. Jefferson Parker, James Ellroy, Raymond Chandler, and Ross MacDonald. Matt Coyle is quickly writing himself onto that list.” — New York Journal of Books “Coyle’s sixth ‘Rick Cahill’ novel will please noir enthusiasts with its staccato prose, evocative descriptions, and hard-nosed protagonist. Readers new to the series can still enjoy this book as a compelling stand-alone mystery, and enticingly vague references to previous books make a strong case for checking out Rick’s past adventures.” — Library Journal “Readers seeking a thriller that borders on a study of psychology will find a treasure trove in this novel set in Santa Barbara, the city of lost tomorrows.”— Bookreporter Praise for the Rick Cahill Series “Coyle knows the secret: digging into a crime means digging into the past. Sometimes it’s messy, sometimes it’s dangerous—always it’s entertaining.” —Michael Connelly, New York Times best-selling author “Matt Coyle's protagonist, Rick Cahill, is haunted both by the sins of his father and by his own mistakes—but he's driven to find the truth, no matter where it takes him, and that's what makes this story so compelling.” —Steve Hamilton, New York Times best-selling authoru200bu200bu200b Matt Coyle is the author of the Rick Cahill PI Crime Series. Lost Tomorrows is the sixth in this best-selling series and winner of the Shamus and Lefty Awards. Yesterday’s Echo , the first in the series, won the Anthony Award, and his other novels have been nominated for numerous Macavity, Shamus, and Lefty Awards. Matt is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara and lives in San Diego with his yellow Lab, Angus.

Features & Highlights

  • Winner of the Shamus Award and Lefty Award
  • Would you risk your own soul to avenge the death of a loved one?
  • A phone call thrusts Rick Cahill’s past and all its tragic consequences into his present. Krista Landingham, his former partner on the Santa Barbara Police Department, is dead. When Rick goes to the funeral in the city where his wife was murdered and where he is seen as guilty for her death in the eyes of the police, he discovers that Krista’s death may not have been a tragic accident, but murder. Hired by Krista’s sister, Leah, to investigate, Rick follows clues that lead him to the truth, not only about Krista’s death, but about the tragedy that ruined his life. Along the way, Leah shows him that his life can be salvaged, and he can feel love again if he can just move beyond his past. But the past is Rick’s present and will always be until he rights his one great wrong. In the end, Rick is left with a decision that forces him to confront the horrific actions he’ll need to take to exact revenge and achieve redemption.
  • A hard-boiled PI thriller perfect for fans of Robert Crais and T. Jefferson Parker
  • While all of the novels in the Rick Cahill PI Crime Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:
  • Yesterday’s Echo Night Tremors Dark Fissures Blood Truth Wrong Light Lost Tomorrows Blind Vigil Last Redemption
  • (coming November 2021)

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Choices best left unmade and those made too late

Barely surviving annihilation by San Diego’s Russian Mafia, in 2018’s WRONG LIGHT, Rick Cahill now risks everything to avenge the death of a friend, Santa Barbara Police Sergeant Krista Landingham. Doing so, he discovers the disturbing truth about his wife’s murder 14 years before. The introduction to that unsolved mystery is detailed in Coyle’s Anthony Award-winning début, YESTERDAY’S ECHO.

Krista was rookie Rick’s training officer, from whom he learned “to walk the edge and not fall off.” She had climbed the SBPD ladder and was part of the Major Investigation Unit, reopening the Colleen Cahill cold case—Rick’s wife, whom he was charged with murdering. Krista was more than a friend, the person he was “with the night my wife was murdered. I never forgave either of us for being together when I should have been with my wife.”

Now, Krista has been run down at 2:17 Monday morning, hours after restaurants had closed. Her sister, Leah, notifies Rick of the funeral—and engages him to investigate the suspicious death. She “wanted justice. I wanted revenge. Leah’s quest for the truth had boundaries. Decency. Mine didn’t.” Leah also hires Rick’s former nemesis, retired SBPD Detective Jim Grimes, who was certain Rick had killed Coleen and arrested him, never connecting enough dots for a trial. Combined, the three learn details concerning Colleen and Krista. Moreover, Grimes becomes an SBPD persona non grata, eliminating any link to the department.

“Colleen and Krista’s death were linked. I felt it in my bones. And one person was responsible for both.” The parallel plots morph from investigating Krista’s death to Colleen’s. Grimes tells Rick “that you should never jump to conclusions in homicide cases.” The only time Grimes had done that was with Rick, who now draws a geodesic connecting vengeful imaginary dots. Arresting Colleen’s murderer wasn’t his goal. “No trial. No verdict. Just the death penalty.” His name appears to be derived from maverick, defined as an unorthodox or independent-minded person. That’s Rick, all right.

Reminiscent of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, this phenomenally crafted Cahill installment provides Rick with roads taken and those not—choices best left unmade and those made too late. One poignant scene presents a mind-bending bad choice: “Nausea swarmed inside me. Cold sweat blanketed my body. I fell forward to all fours and wretched. The last bit of undigested food in my stomach fire-hosed out of my mouth.”

Readers seeking a thriller that borders on a study of psychology will find a treasure trove in this novel set in Santa Barbara, the city of lost tomorrows.

Raymond Chandler reincarnate Matt Coyle is upcoming Left Coast Crime San Diego 2020 convention toastmaster. In addition to the impressive accomplishments identified at this link, 2018’s WRONG LIGHT was a Lefty Award and San Diego Book Award finalist and has been nominated for a Shamus Award. Coyle is a Macavity finalist and Anthony Award-winning author crafting his seventh Rick Cahill novel.

Reviewed by L. Dean Murphy for Bookreporter
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