Joe the Plumber Carruthers is in a real fix. His favorite customer, gorgeous philanthropist Emma Lorraine Stuckley, has been brutally murdered, and Joe's DNA and finger prints are all over her Trenton townhouse. And why wouldn't it be? He'd been working on a leak in her hallway hours before her death. However, when Emma's corpse yields evidence that her plumber was fiddling with more than her copper fixtures, Joe becomes suspect number one and gets hauled in by Trenton's finest. The cops are under pressure to close the case, but Joe's apprentice, nineteen year old Rebecca Rueda, stands by her boss. She hasn't known him all that long, however, her instinct tells her a guy who'd give a woman a chance, in 1988, to become a plumber is a good guy and not some psycho killer. Joe's lawyer gets him released temporarily. Still Joe's depressed. He misses his ex-wife Debra, his part-time lover is dead, and at thirty-eight years of age he's headed for the slammer. He looks around the city he grew up in. It's crumbling down around him. Yeah, he thinks, Trenton takes the plug right outta the drain, alright. Everything's running down a big old sewer pipe. This place has become nothing but the breeding ground for the sicko who did such an awful thing. Joe's on the verge of giving-up, and it isn't until Rebecca convinces him to join her in an investigation of their own, that he sees a small ray of hope. Will the Carruthers-Rueda duo beat the clock and find the real killer? Or will Joe the Plumber be plumbing the depths of the state prison for the rest of his life?
Author: S. Snyder-CarrollPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 01/24/2018
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d
ISBN13: 9781981552146
ISBN10: 1981552146
BISAC Categories:-
Fiction |
Mystery & Detective | Amateur SleuthAbout the Author
Suzanne Snyder-Carroll was born and raised in Trenton, New Jersey, a place that has hovered for decades between glorious and gritty. When she left for college she swore she'd never come back. But after graduating from Glassboro State College, she returned to Trenton to teach English in Junior High School Number One and Trenton Central High School. After twelve years she transferred to the suburbs and Hopewell Valley Central High School where she continued her career until retiring to write. Her connections to Trenton have had a profound affect on her life, and to this day the city remains an integral part of both her intellectual and imaginative perspectives. She often mines her memories of the place and its citizens for material for her novels. Her latest work, Trenton Takes, and her upcoming title, Catch Me Some Sky, are both set in the her beloved hometown, crumbling and glistening all at once.
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