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THE MURDER OF PAOLO MANCUSO

This time is personal, very personal. Paolo Mancuso was killed in a bar in Little Italy 20 years ago. To this day, his murder has gone unsolved. A cold-case The NYPD has not paid much attention to in all these years. Enter Antonino “Tony The Hammer” Falcone. Paolo’s best friend and co-mafia family member. Tony, in his death-bed, reveals to Joey that the mafia had nothing to do with his dad’s murder. Something Joey always believed it had. Instead, with his last breath, Tony whispers only three words to Joey – Barcelona, Wetherly, Stevens. With just those three words, Joey sets off to Barcelona. Is it justice or revenge, Joey seeks? Will he learn things about his dad’s past, he wished he hadn’t? Is Joey about to go up against one of New York’s five mafia families? Will he solve Paolo Mancuso’s murder?

Now retired, former NYPD Homicide Detective, with the Midtown South Precinct, Joey Mancuso, had looked at the murder book many times during the time he was with the NYPD. Lacking clues and any evidence, he was never able to pursue the perpetrators responsible for his father’s death. Currently a licensed private detective in New York City and half-owner of an Irish Pub in New York’s Financial District with his half-brother, Father Dominic O’Brian, the pastor at Saint Helen’s Catholic Church in Brooklyn, also a licensed private detective, they set out to solve the murder of Paolo Mancuso.

The brothers, Mancuso and O’Brian have been called by the New York press; – “The Last Advocates of the Victims,” for the relentless pursuit of the perpetrators, they exemplified in their last cases, working as consultants for the NYPD or as investigators for criminal law firms.

But, this time is personal, very personal. And, Joey’s determination in solving this case, his dad’s unsolved murder, could make him do things outside the bounds of justice. Is it justice or revenge he seeks?

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The 4th Mancuso – O’Brian Crime Mystery almost here!

Joey & Father O’Brian are asked to help with the abduction of a student at the University of Miami. Little did they know this case would put them in the cross hairs of ISIS and an antiquities collector, who must protect his identity at all costs. The Case of The Antiquities Collector by Owen Parr coming in April 2018.

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Awards received

It’s humbling and rewarding to receive awards from various sources.

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Awards received.

Readers’ Favorite has awarded the 5 Stars for top reviews to all Joey Mancuso,Father O’Brian Crime Mystery series.

For the second year in a row, New Apple Literary Services has awarded me the 2017 Solo Medalist for Mystery, for – A Murder on Wall Street, the 1st is the Joey Mancuso, Father O’Brian Crime Mystery series. I’m honored and humbled to have this award two years in a row.

 

 

 

It’s humbling and rewarding to receive awards from various sources.

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I’m honored to have received 4th Award.

For the second year in a row, New Apple Literary Services has awarded me the 2017 Solo Medalist for Mystery, for – A Murder on Wall Street, the 1st is the Joey Mancuso, Father O’Brian Crime Mystery series. I’m honored and humbled to have this award two years in a row.

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Solo Medalist for Mystery Award – A Murder on Wall Street

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For second year in a row, New Apple Literary Services has awarded me the 2017 Solo Medalist for Mystery, for – A Murder on Wall Street, the 1st is the Joey Mancuso, Father O’Brian Crime Mystery series. I’m honored and humbled to have this award two years in a row.

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Solo Medalist for Mystery Award

For the second year in a row, New Apple Literary Services has awarded me the 2017 Solo Medalist for Mystery award for – A Murder on Wall Street, the 1st in the Joey Mancuso, Father O’Brian Crime Mystery series.

I’m honored and humbled to have received this award two years in a row.

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Owen Parr wins second award for “The Dead Have Secrets”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

New Apple Literary Services has awarded author Owen Parr’s book, ‘The Dead Have Secrets’ the solo “Medalist Winner” in the Mystery category of our 2016 New Apple Annual Book Awards for Excellence in Independent Publishing!

Parr’s ‘The Dead Have Secrets’ is the second book in the John Powers Mystery series following ‘Operation Black Swan.’

Parr is a 30-year plus veteran of the Wall Street industry. Still employed in the Financial sector, Parr incorporates his savvy into a fusion of facts and fiction to deliver well-plotted and extremely well-developed characters into his political intrigue and mystery novels with an uncanny ability to draw the reader into the story.

A relatively new novelist, Parr has published four novels since 2015, with ‘Due Diligence,’ being the first, followed by ‘Operation Black Swan,’ ‘The Dead Have Secrets,’ and his new entry into the crime mystery genre, ‘A Murder on Wall Street.’

If one were to compare Parr’s novels to best-selling established authors, it would have to be that his style combines the best of Robert Ludlum and Michael Connelly.

For more information, please visit www.owenparr.com, or write the author at owen@owenparr.com

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Let’s talk

Enjoy four minutes of the I.A.C.M (Indie Author Crime Member) Group Award presentation. Click on the Youtube link below>

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