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SUDDEN GRIEF

by Adam Carpenter

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Sudden Grief - Adam Carpenter
Part of the Jimmy McSwain's Early Files series:
Editions:ePub: $ 3.99
ISBN: 9798896023265
Pages: 120

A teenage boy is dead, the victim of a hit-and-run. Clues have dried up and the police have assigned it to the cold case file. With a father still seeking justice, he engages the services of Finley Sullivan Investigations. Jimmy McSwain is about to be handed his most challenging case as he enters the second year of his apprenticeship.

Jimmy can empathize with Malcom Tenney. Their situations are reversed, though, one having lost a child, the other a father. But that’s where the similarities end. Fourteen-year-old Roddy Tenney was an anomaly in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a violin prodigy with a bright future in a troubled neighborhood. His father tried his best to shield him from the dangers found on Brooklyn’s tough streets, providing him with a privileged life.

Malcolm is convinced the boy’s death is related to a real estate developer who will stop at nothing—including murder—to take control of the valuable property where Tenney’s Auto Emporium stands. As Jimmy goes undercover, mutual grief becomes the motivation in solving a case built on tragedy…before another can occur.

 

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Publisher: JMS Books, LLC
Genres:
Mystery & Thriller, Suspense

Tags:
author - american, format - novella 15k-40K, format - series, potential trigger - death, potential trigger - grief; past loss, what - concept - acceptance, what - topic - parenting, what - topic - single dad, when - season - spring, where - city - new york city, who - occupation - businessman, who - occupation - detective, who - occupation - mechanic, who - occupation - small business owner

Pairings: M-M
Heat Level: 5
Romantic Content: 2
Ending: Click here to reveal
Protagonist 1 Age: 26-35
Protagonist 2 Age: 18-25
Tropes: Cultural Differences, Interracial Relationship
Word Count: 32,000
Setting: New York City, Manhattan, Brooklyn
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters
Excerpt:

About the Author

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ADAM CARPENTER is the best-selling author of many titles of mystery, romance, and intrigue, all featuring gay lead characters.

The Cane's Inlet Mystery trilogy consists of SCANDALOUS LIES, SINISTER MOTIVES, and SUSPICIOUS TRUTHS, available in eBook, print, and as a box-set.

His acclaimed Jimmy McSwain detective series includes HIDDEN IDENTITY, CRIME WAVE, STAGE FRIGHT, GUARDIAN ANGEL. FOREVER HAUNT, FRESH KILL, SECOND SHOT, FALSE JUSTICE, JERSEY SCORE (co-authored with Joseph Pittman), JERSEY SCORE, and PERFECT DEATH.

A new series called "Jimmy McSwain's Early Files" features SILVER SHIELD, HEART BEAT, DOUBLE EDGE, BURIAL PLOT, and the forthcoming SUDDEN GRIEF.

"The Wonderland Scandal" trilogy is, in order: DESPERATE HUSBANDS, DESPERATE LOVERS, and DESPERATE ENEMIES. All three will be reissued in 2026.

Adam's sexy homage to the prime time and daytime soaps begins with EDEN'S PAST, followed by EDEN'S PRESENT and EDEN'S FUTURE, which are available in eBook, print. and as a box-set.

His "White Pine" firefighter novels include SECRET FLAMES, HEAT OF THE MOMENT, A RAGING FIRE, and BURNING TRUTH, which will be reissued in 2026.

His "European Flings Quartet" series begins with the short story PASSPORT TO A FLING. followed by PASSION IN PARIS, RAPTURE IN ROME, LUST IN LONDON, and NUPTIALS IN NICE. Available in ebook and print.

The Johnny Lee Capstone books are: the full-length novel, DUDE RANCH, and the two novellas, A YEARLY TRYST and COMING/ARRIVAL.

Among Adam’s stand-alone novels the White-Pine spin-off THAT PASSIONATE SEASON, SUMMER'S CHOICE and its spin-off, ISLAND DESIRES.

His short fiction was collected in NOCTURNAL DELIGHTS, which includes the new novella, "An Assurance of Love."

Under the name Joseph Pittman, he is the author of the beloved Linden Corners series, including TILTING AT WINDMILLS, A CHRISTMAS WISH, A CHRISTMAS HOPE, A CHRISTMAS DREAM (formerly The Memory Tree), and CHASING WINDMILLS.

Other novels include WHEN THE WORLD WAS SMALL, LEGEND'S END, BEYOND THE STORM, the Todd Gleason Crime Novels LONDON FROG, CALIFORNIA SCHEMING, TWO TODD TALES, TWO MORE TODD TALES, THE CANNES CON and (co-authored with Adam Carpenter) JERSEY SCORE. His suspense novel, THE ORIGINAL CRIME, was published as a three-part serialized eBook, REMEMBRANCE, RETRIBUTION, REDEMPTION.

Also, don't miss his nonfiction project, THE SHADOW DIARIES: The Hopeful Year in the Life of a Rescue Dog, and THE BROADWAY DIARES: 30 Years From Aisle to Stage. Read his "The Stephen King Diaries" in STEPHEN KING ANNUAL 2025.