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The Redhead in the Cove
A teenage boy kayaking outside the San Francisco Giants baseball stadium hopes an out-of-the-park home run will gain him a floating souvenir. Instead, he discovers something macabre—the body of MaryLou Kowalski, a once beautiful young nurse, washed up on the rocks in the cove adjacent to the stadium.
When the autopsy shows she didn’t drown, evidence leads to a string of suspects from a small town in northern Louisiana to San Francisco. One of them is Johnny Lynch, a veteran SFPD Police Inspector and secret lover involved in an affair with the married victim. In fear and desperation, his reputation and very career on the line, he calls on his ex-partner and former Navy special forces veteran Steve Lombardi, now a struggling Private Investigator, to exonerate him and uncover the true murderer!
In a race to clear his friend’s name, Steve embarks on a mission that weaves him in and out of the many eccentric characters that inhabit the Bay Area.
Unfortunately, what Steve finds will haunt him forever…
When the autopsy shows she didn’t drown, evidence leads to a string of suspects from a small town in northern Louisiana to San Francisco. One of them is Johnny Lynch, a veteran SFPD Police Inspector and secret lover involved in an affair with the married victim. In fear and desperation, his reputation and very career on the line, he calls on his ex-partner and former Navy special forces veteran Steve Lombardi, now a struggling Private Investigator, to exonerate him and uncover the true murderer!
In a race to clear his friend’s name, Steve embarks on a mission that weaves him in and out of the many eccentric characters that inhabit the Bay Area.
Unfortunately, what Steve finds will haunt him forever…
224 pages, Paperback
First published April 20, 2021
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May 12, 2021A page-turning whodunit ... Scott Addeo Young and Ed Addeo have delivered a classy crime thriller with a swift plot, many hooks, characters who are well-defined (flaws and all), and even a nice geography and culture lesson about San Francisco and its surrounding areas.
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June 19, 2021
Readers seeking a story with atmosphere, fascinating characters, and enough surprises to keep them guessing should look no further than The Redhead in the Cove by Scott Addeo Young and Edmond G. Addeo. This grandfather/grandson duo has whipped up a gripping story.
The story opens in San Francisco when Freddy Davis floats along in his kayak in McCovey Cove behind Oracle Park. His main mission is to catch a ball flying out of the park. He has a good chance when he sees a foul ball heading toward the water. Unfortunately, someone else snags the ball because he is in a motorized boat, thus faster than Freddy in his kayak.
Still, moving toward where the ball would have landed, Freddy sees something strange in the water. It looks like red seaweed, but that cannot be. The sight was intriguing enough that Freddy wants a closer look. What he finds will change him; he sees “the long red hair of a naked dead woman wedged face down amid the rocks.”
The story then turns to the police investigation which is colored by the fact that the dead woman, MaryLou Kowalski, a nurse, has been having an affair with Johnny Lynch, San Francisco Police inspector. MaryLou was a married woman. Her autopsy shows she did not drown, but was dead before she was in the water.
To clear himself, Johnny Lynch seeks help from his long-time friend Steve Lombardi, a PI. Lombardi and Lynch had been partners in an earlier time.
As Steve ponders MaryLou’s murder, he wonders if he could trace the body’s movements by understanding the flow of the water. That is, could he trace whether “a washed-up body at Point A could be traced to having entered the water at Point B.” Such information would be invaluable in helping him toward the next step in the investigation.
Steve’s investigation leads him across the US and into northern Louisiana. That also means a number of suspects emerge as Steve continues his investigation.
Because of some of The Redhead in the Cove reminds me of the noir mysteries of the past. There are many references to “long, wet lunches” and frequently characters drink alcohol together in sleazy dives.
To give readers the full story, Young and Addeo provide flashbacks to MaryLou and her life with a variety of people, thus introducing other suspects.
Often, mysteries do not make good book club discussions. Readers of The Redhead in the Cove will find the number of suspects fodder for discussion along with the wide range of locations from San Francisco to Louisiana.
Scott Addeo Young lives in the Bay Area, so he is drawing on local color. He has a degree in English from the U of CA at Santa Barbara.
Ed Addeo, an engineer, gave up his career in engineering to become a writer because he is convinced that he is “F. Scott Fitzgerald.”
The story opens in San Francisco when Freddy Davis floats along in his kayak in McCovey Cove behind Oracle Park. His main mission is to catch a ball flying out of the park. He has a good chance when he sees a foul ball heading toward the water. Unfortunately, someone else snags the ball because he is in a motorized boat, thus faster than Freddy in his kayak.
Still, moving toward where the ball would have landed, Freddy sees something strange in the water. It looks like red seaweed, but that cannot be. The sight was intriguing enough that Freddy wants a closer look. What he finds will change him; he sees “the long red hair of a naked dead woman wedged face down amid the rocks.”
The story then turns to the police investigation which is colored by the fact that the dead woman, MaryLou Kowalski, a nurse, has been having an affair with Johnny Lynch, San Francisco Police inspector. MaryLou was a married woman. Her autopsy shows she did not drown, but was dead before she was in the water.
To clear himself, Johnny Lynch seeks help from his long-time friend Steve Lombardi, a PI. Lombardi and Lynch had been partners in an earlier time.
As Steve ponders MaryLou’s murder, he wonders if he could trace the body’s movements by understanding the flow of the water. That is, could he trace whether “a washed-up body at Point A could be traced to having entered the water at Point B.” Such information would be invaluable in helping him toward the next step in the investigation.
Steve’s investigation leads him across the US and into northern Louisiana. That also means a number of suspects emerge as Steve continues his investigation.
Because of some of The Redhead in the Cove reminds me of the noir mysteries of the past. There are many references to “long, wet lunches” and frequently characters drink alcohol together in sleazy dives.
To give readers the full story, Young and Addeo provide flashbacks to MaryLou and her life with a variety of people, thus introducing other suspects.
Often, mysteries do not make good book club discussions. Readers of The Redhead in the Cove will find the number of suspects fodder for discussion along with the wide range of locations from San Francisco to Louisiana.
Scott Addeo Young lives in the Bay Area, so he is drawing on local color. He has a degree in English from the U of CA at Santa Barbara.
Ed Addeo, an engineer, gave up his career in engineering to become a writer because he is convinced that he is “F. Scott Fitzgerald.”
July 1, 2021
I found The Redhead in the Cove to be a interesting read, it had some fascinating characters and was able to keep me turning the pages to the very end. In my personal opinion this book would make a very good book club read, plenty of suspects and it guess me guessing unto the very end. I would certainly recommend this book to others. I received a print copy of the book from #book.trib and the opinion expressed here are my own.
May 11, 2021
Great Book and Fantastic Story
A great book and a great page turner. Hopefully the start of future SF crime noir stories to come from the authors.
A great book and a great page turner. Hopefully the start of future SF crime noir stories to come from the authors.
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