Death Before Coffee: A Mike O'Shea Novel: 2 - Softcover

Ryan, Desmond P

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1685124232 ISBN 13: 9781685124236

Publisher: Level Best Books, 2023

Synopsis

​By 2:27 on a Thursday afternoon, the one-legged man from Room 8 at 147 Loxitor Avenue had been beaten to death with a lead pipe. Twenty-eight minutes later, Detective Mike O'Shea is testifying in a stuffy courtroom, unaware that, within an hour, he will be standing in an alleyway littered with beer cans and condoms while his new partner uses a ballpoint pen to flick bugs off of a battered corpse. When a rogue undercover copper leaves Mike balancing what is legal with what is right, an unlikely rapport develops between Mike and the lead homicide investigator, a cop's cop in stilettos. At the end of his seventy-two-hour shift, three men are dead, and Mike O'Shea is floating in and out of consciousness in an emergency room hallway, two women by his side. 

  

In the second book of The Mike O'Shea Series, Death Before Coffee weaves a homicide investigation through the life of an inner-city police detective intent on balancing his responsibilities as a son, brother, and newly single father with his sworn oath of duty and the promise he made himself to find the man who murdered his former partner. 

About this title

About the Author

For almost thirty years, Desmond P. Ryan worked as a cop in the back alleys, poorly-lit laneways, and forgotten neighborhoods in Toronto, the city where he grew up. Murder, mayhem, and sexual violations intended to demean, shame, and haunt the victims were all in a day's work. Whether as a beat cop or a plainclothes detective, Desmond dealt with good people who did bad things and bad people who followed their instincts. And now, as a retired detective, he writes crime fiction. Desmond resides in Cabbagetown, a neighborhood in Toronto where he is currently working on The Mike O'Shea Series and The Mary-Margaret Series, both published by Level Best Books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Level Best Books
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1685124232
• ISBN 13: 9781685124236
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 264