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The Black Song Inside Review
About The Book:
Atticus Wynn and Rosemary Sanchez, newly engaged private investigators, have seen the dark and violent side of life. Nothing, though, has prepared them for an explosive murder investigation that threatens to tear their relationship apart as they struggle to solve a case that could leave them in prison or dead.
Atticus’s manipulative ex-girlfriend bursts back into their lives wielding a secret about Rosemary’s family that she exploits to force the couple into investigating the execution-style slaying of her lover. The case thrusts Atticus and Rosemary headlong into the world of human trafficking and drug smuggling, while rendering them pawns in Tijuana Cartel captain Armando Villanueva’s bloody bid to take over the cartel.
The Black Song Inside is a vivid crime thriller rife with murder and madness, melded with gallows humor and the heroism of two flawed and compelling protagonists who, if they can save themselves, may learn the nature of redemption and the ability to forgive.
What I Thought:
A woman with a history of wrong doings, feels she is in danger of no longer having her soul. She tells police she left a girl alone in the desert, and the girl is possibly dead. And that's when Atticus is brought into the mix. Having a history with this woman, they believe he can possible be able to tell them what her problem is. Being his ex-girlfriend he hates to know she's in town, he happy with his fiance and he knows his ex can cause trouble with that. And now he's been put on the case.
Rosemary hates to lay up in a bed cause of her injury and she especially hates it with her mother there. Her mom steadily nags her about Atticus and how he's never there for her. Rosemary can't wait to get back on with her job instead of just sitting there, she would love to know how everything is going with Atticus. And if he needs help with his newest case, only to find out who the case is about. What does this woman want?
About The Author:
Carlyle Clark was raised in Poway, a city just north of San Diego, but is now a proud Chicagolander working in the field of Corporate Security and writing crime and fantasy fiction. He has flailed ineffectually at performing the writer's requisite myriad of random jobs: pizza deliverer, curb address painter, sweatshop laborer, day laborer, night laborer, security guard, campus police, Gallup pollster, medical courier, vehicle procurer, and signature-for-petitions-getter.
He is a married man with two cats and a dog. He is also a martial arts enthusiast and a CrossFit endurer who enjoys fishing, sports, movies, TV series with continuing storylines, and of course, reading. Most inconsequentially, he holds the unrecognized distinction of being one of the few people in the world who have been paid to watch concrete dry in the dark. Tragically, that is a true statement.
