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The Secret of FBI File 100-3-116
Blackman Agency Investigations, 9
The summer of 2020. COVID-19 is spreading like wildfire. Racial reckoning and Confederate monuments fuel nationwide protests. And Asheville, North Carolina, is not immune.
When Sam Blackman and Nakayla Robertson see an elderly man knocked to the pavement by a Confederate sympathizer, they rush to his aid. The assailant runs away and the fatally injured man struggles to say, "I'm so sorry, Nakayla. Can you forgive me?" Nakayla has never seen him before. Why does he want her forgiveness?
Nakayla learns the man, Henry Nelson, was a retired homicide detective who had investigated her father's death fifteen years earlier. He'd closed the case as a suicide. But when Nelson's widow brings Nakayla the case files her husband stole from police records, she and Sam realize the old man had been reviewing the investigation, evidently questioning his earlier conclusions.
But then the detective's widow is murdered and Sam and Nakayla find themselves confronting a killer who will stop at nothing to keep a crime from the past buried in the past. Their only clue, a declassified FBI file that J. Edgar Hoover kept on Martin Luther King, Jr. A file that detailed threats against the civil rights leader during his trips to Asheville. A file found on the desk of Nakayla's father the night he died. A file that holds the key to the secret. The Secret of FBI File 100-3-116.
The summer of 2020. COVID-19 is spreading like wildfire. Racial reckoning and Confederate monuments fuel nationwide protests. And Asheville, North Carolina, is not immune.
When Sam Blackman and Nakayla Robertson see an elderly man knocked to the pavement by a Confederate sympathizer, they rush to his aid. The assailant runs away and the fatally injured man struggles to say, "I'm so sorry, Nakayla. Can you forgive me?" Nakayla has never seen him before. Why does he want her forgiveness?
Nakayla learns the man, Henry Nelson, was a retired homicide detective who had investigated her father's death fifteen years earlier. He'd closed the case as a suicide. But when Nelson's widow brings Nakayla the case files her husband stole from police records, she and Sam realize the old man had been reviewing the investigation, evidently questioning his earlier conclusions.
But then the detective's widow is murdered and Sam and Nakayla find themselves confronting a killer who will stop at nothing to keep a crime from the past buried in the past. Their only clue, a declassified FBI file that J. Edgar Hoover kept on Martin Luther King, Jr. A file that detailed threats against the civil rights leader during his trips to Asheville. A file found on the desk of Nakayla's father the night he died. A file that holds the key to the secret. The Secret of FBI File 100-3-116.
228 pages, Paperback
Published April 6, 2023
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Mark de Castrique
30 books167 followersMark de Castrique is an author, playwright, public speaker, and television producer living in Charlotte.
Through his company MARK et al., he writes, shoots, and edits projects for a variety of clients.
His work has earned CLIO, TELLY, and EMMY awards.
Mark has scripted stories aired on PBS and commercial network affiliates, as well as created video presentations for major corporations.
Through his company MARK et al., he writes, shoots, and edits projects for a variety of clients.
His work has earned CLIO, TELLY, and EMMY awards.
Mark has scripted stories aired on PBS and commercial network affiliates, as well as created video presentations for major corporations.
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March 14, 2025
I love these characters. They feel like friends. I love this setting as it’s an area close to my heart. I love these books because I always walk away having been thoroughly entertained while also learning something new about an area I love.
September 22, 2024
PI partners Sam Blackman and girlfriend Nakayla Robertson are watching a protest at a Civil War monument during Covid when an elderly man is knocked down by a protestor. As they rush to his aid, he apologizes to Nakayla and asks for forgiveness. The victim, Henry Nelson was a retired detective who investigated Nakayla's father's suicide 15 years earlier.
Nelson's widow then brings her the police file of her father's death with notes indicating the suicide was murder. They of course investigate and her father's death is linked to her grandmothers disappearance during the 60's. The clue in the papers references a now public FBI file found on her father's desk referencing threats against Martin Luther King.
They solve both her father's death & grandmothers disappearance but not without more collateral damage. A good who done it.
Nelson's widow then brings her the police file of her father's death with notes indicating the suicide was murder. They of course investigate and her father's death is linked to her grandmothers disappearance during the 60's. The clue in the papers references a now public FBI file found on her father's desk referencing threats against Martin Luther King.
They solve both her father's death & grandmothers disappearance but not without more collateral damage. A good who done it.
October 8, 2023
A little slow but the characters are likable and the writing is very good.
January 1, 2024
#9 in the Sam Blackman and Nakayla Robertson series. 2023series entry by author Mark de Castrique.
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