TBR Thursday is a weekly meme in which I highlight a book from my tbr. Although for me, just highlighting it isn’t enough, I plan to read and review it by next Thursday as well.
On My TBR This Week
Red Means Run by Brad Smith
Pages: 305
Published by Scribner/Simon and Schuster
Goodreads
Mickey Dupree is one of the most successful criminal attorneys in upstate New York, having never lost a capital murder case. That is the upside of being Mickey. The downside—Mickey has a lot of enemies and one of them drives the shaft of a golf club through his heart, leaving him dead in a sand trap at his exclusive country club.
The cops, led by a dimwitted detective named Joe Brady, focus their attentions on Virgil Cain. Just two weeks earlier Virgil told a crowded bar that "somebody ought to blow Mickey's head off," after the slippery lawyer earned an acquittal for Alan Comstock, the man accused of murdering Virgil's wife. Comstock, a legendary record producer, gun nut, and certifiable lunatic, has returned to his estate, where he lives with his wife, the long-suffering Jane.
It appears to Virgil that the fix is in when Brady immediately throws him into jail with no questions asked. In order to set things right, Virgil escapes from jail, determined to find Mickey's killer himself. Aside from a smart and sexy detective named Claire Marchand, everybody is convinced that Virgil is the culprit. When Alan Comstock is discovered with six slugs in his body the day after Virgil's escape, his guilt is almost assured. Now it is up to Virgil to convince everyone of his innocence—by finding the killer before he winds up being the next victim.
Why it is on my TBR
I received the first three books in Brad Smith’s Virgil Cain Mysteries for review several years ago. They sound fresh, unique and the perfect fall read.
This does sound like a nice crime read! Good luck Virgil! Sounds like he’s gonna need it. 🙂