A Pitch in Crime

Best Selling Author Weaves A Comples Portland Crime Story That Will Keep You Guessing.

by Raymond F. Quinton.

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A young prostitute is murdered in a sleepy northeast Portland, Oregon, neighborhood. Legendary detective Bob Grimsley takes a personal interest in the case and finds that there’s more to the young girl than meets the eye. Rich Franklin, an African American writer and part-time newspaper pitcher doesn’t realize he may have seen the murderer. He finds himself in the middle of a bizarre murder conspiracy that threatens the lives of his family. This complex, Portland thriller brings in characters from around the region to solve a murder that could bring down powerful people. The clock is ticking to solve the crime before a cover-up is complete.

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Rich Franklin is an unassuming Jamaican American intellectual publisher who’s not sure whether his destiny is to be a successful publisher/intellectual/jazz pianist or to pitch newspapers for the rest of his life because of the most recent publication disaster. While delivering one morning, he finds a gun pointed at his windshield by a half-wit named Chico. Chico is running from the scene of a crime. An young prostitute lies dead near a van. Legendary gun expert and police chief Bob Grimsley must solve the mystery with a young African American lieutenant. Their relationship is contentious. Who cares about a dead prostitute or a Jamaican American paperboy down on his luck? Maybe a sleazy senator, a crooked co-police chief, a reluctant Ferrari-driving tech guru/PI and a clever Oakland collections agent. Full of miss-direction and second-guesses, the good guys and the bad guys find themselves all in one place at the same time somehow. Clever, gritty, funny and tense, a real thriller of a story.