First published 2011
Aloysius Eugene Engel works as the right hand man for a criminal organization. When Charlie Brody dies, the organization stages an elaborate funeral that would make Cecil B. DeMille proud. They bury Charlie in his finest suit, not knowing it contains a quarter million dollars worth of heroin. Aloysius gets assigned the unpleasant task of digging up the grave to retrieve the drugs. He opens the coffin and finds it empty. Charlie Brody has disappeared. This discovery launches a wild chain of events that threatens to make Aloysius the next corpse. He must navigate the chaos while dodging both his own organization and whatever forces made Charlie vanish. The missing body and missing drugs create a dangerous puzzle that keeps everyone guessing about what really happened to Charlie Brody.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: cat-and-mouse, high-stakes, missing-body
228 pages · Kindle Edition · MysteriousPress.com/Open Road