Matt Coyle, best-selling author of the Rick Cahill PI crime series, will be discussing his new book, “Last Redemption,” on Vroman’s Live on Tuesday, December 14, at 6 p.m. He will be in conversation with Naomi Hirahara, the Edgar Award–winning author of the Mas Arai mystery series.
Published by Oceanview Publishing, “Last Redemption” follows PI Rick Cahill as he finally lives a settled, happy life. His fiancée, Leah Landingham, is pregnant with their first child and he is doing work that pays well and keeps him out of danger. Then a doctor gives him the bad news about the headaches he’s been suffering – CTE, the pro football disease that leads to senility and early death – a secret he keeps from Leah and his best friend Moira MacFarlane.
When Moira asks him to monitor her son, Luke – who’s broken a restraining order to stay away from his girl-friend – a simple surveillance explodes into greed, deceit, and murder. Luke goes missing, and Rick’s dogged determination compels him to follow clues that lead to the exploration of high finance and DNA cancer research. Ultimately, Rick is forced to battle sadistic killers as he tries to find Luke and stay alive long enough to see the birth of his child.
Coyle’s novels have won the Anthony Award, the Shamus Award, the Lefty Award, the San Diego Book Award, among others, and have been nominated for numerous Anthony, Macavity, Shamus, and Lefty Awards. “Last Redemption” is the eighth in this award-winning series.
Naomi Hirahara has written “Summer of the Big Bachi,” which was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and one of Chicago Tribune’s Ten Best Mysteries and Thrillers. She is also the author of the LA-based Ellie Rush mysteries. A former editor of The Rafu Shimpo newspaper, she has co-written non-fiction books like “Life after Manzanar” and the award-winning “Terminal Island: Lost Communities of Los Angeles Harbor.”
The Stanford University alumna was born and raised in Altadena. She now resides in Pasadena.
To watch the discussion on Crowdcast, reserve your space through www.crowdcast.io/e/matt-coyle.
