Sacrifice Fly: A Mystery

Raymond Donne wasn't always a schoolteacher. Not only did he patrol the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as one of New York's Finest, but being the nephew of the chief of detectives, he was expected to go on to bigger things. At least he was until the accident that destroyed his knees. Unable to do the job the way he wanted, he became a teacher in the same neighborhood, and did everything he could to put the force behind him and come to terms with the change.

Then Frankie Rivas, a student in Ray's class and a baseball phenom, stops showing up to school. With Frankie in danger of failing and missing out on a scholarship, Ray goes looking for him, only to find Frankie's father bludgeoned to death in their apartment. Frankie and his younger sister are gone, possibly on the run. But did Frankie really kill his father? Ray can't believe it. But then who did, and where are Frankie and his sister? Ray doesn't know, but if he's going to have any chance of bringing them home safely, he's going to have to return to the life, the people, and the demons he walked out on all those years ago.

Intense, authentic, and completely gripping, Tim O'Mara's Sacrifice Fly is an outstanding debut from a stellar new voice in crime fiction.

Author: Tim O'Mara
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 10/16/2012
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.50w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781250008985

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/23/2012 pg. 33
Booklist 09/01/2012 pg. 53
Library Journal 09/01/2012 pg. 86
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2012

About the Author

TIM O'MARA is a teacher in the New York City public school system. Raised on Long Island, he lives in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen with his wife and daughter.

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