Every Secret Crime (Five Star First Edition Mystery) [Hardcover]

Doug M. Cummings (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 429 pages
• Publisher: Five Star (ME); First Edition edition (June 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594146659
• ISBN-13: 978-1594146657
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,079,796 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Doug has been shot at, driven cars at 110 miles per hour, arrested criminals and been in some hellacious fights. And it's safe to say that all of these adventures, while moonlighting as a deputy sheriff during college, prepared him well for his life's work as one of Chicago's finest crime reporters and author of the highly acclaimed Reno McCarthy crime novels.

Doug began his twenty-five-year broadcasting career as a television investigative reporter before discovering his passion for the immediacy of news-radio. He worked as an anchor, reporter and talk-show host in Kansas, Missouri and downstate Illinois before settling in Chicago.
In more than seventeen years as a crime and breaking news reporter for the former WMAQ Radio and then WGN Radio in Chicago, Doug received awards for his coverage of dozens of stories including murders, train crashes, fires, school shootings and tornadoes. His reports have been heard on every major network.

Doug lives in suburban Chicago with his friend and colleague, Socks-Monster, the feline action-hero, who recently received rave reviews for his cameo role in Doug's second novel, Every Secret Crime. They are currently hard at work on Doug's next book.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars entertaining journalistic investigative tale, June 28, 2008

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Every Secret Crime (Five Star First Edition Mystery) (Hardcover)

In Wihega County, Illinois an intruder breaks into the home of renowned TV show hosts attorneys Croix and Margo Hayden; he expected no one home at the time. However, the teenage son Trey is there so the assailant shoots him in the chest before fleeing. The victim's sister finds him.

The county cops hone in on Trey's pal Lucas Bremer as they had a fight at a party earlier that night over the former's girlfriend Lindsey and he was seen later at the crime scene. However, TV reporter Reno McCarthy thinks the cops are looking for an easy solution to make this media frenzied case vanish even as officials control the news better than the Pentagon does. He begins his own inquiry while the police refuse to cooperate and warn him to back off or spend time in jail; someone else uses a firebomb at the station to try to get Reno off the case. All these attacks, other related murders, watching corrupt powerbrokers scurrying like roaches for cover and personal problems intensify Reno's investigation

This is an entertaining journalistic investigative tale as Reno finds the cops and the county government acting peculiar as if they must conceal something that he plans to reveal once he learns what is going on. The story line is fast-paced and never slows down as Reno takes a licking but keeps on ticking.

Harriet Klausner

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, October 18, 2009

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SPW "Avid Reader" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Every Secret Crime (Five Star First Edition Mystery) (Hardcover)

Great stuff, Cummings does it again!!
Well done, hope to see the next one soon.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great read!, September 18, 2008

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P. S. Anderson (Lincoln, NE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Every Secret Crime (Five Star First Edition Mystery) (Hardcover)

One word - FANTASTIC! Cummings does it again. Every Secret Crime, like Deader By the Lake has great plot and character development. The story is fast-paced and never slows down, the suspense leaves you wanting more. hen can we expect book #3????