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Kevin Egan

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Born

in White Plains, The United States

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http://www.kevinjeganfiction.com/

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Mystery, Thriller, Science Fiction

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Kevin Egan is the author of eight novels and more than 40 short stories.

His first novel, The Perseus Breed, combined a science fiction story-line with strong mystery genre elements. In the book, Borley Share’s obsessive quest to understand the sudden disappearance of his first serious girlfriend uncovers the existence of an alien race using the Earth as a nursery to raise its young.

Writing as Conor Daly, he published a three-book mystery series featuring Kieran Lenahan, who quit the practice of law to become a golf pro. Bouncing between the professional tour and a sedate country club, Kieran cannot shake the problems that bedeviled his legal career.

In Local Knowledge, a dead client’s testamentary request that Kieran auction a set of ra Kevin Egan is the author of eight novels and more than 40 short stories.

His first novel, The Perseus Breed, combined a science fiction story-line with strong mystery genre elements. In the book, Borley Share’s obsessive quest to understand the sudden disappearance of his first serious girlfriend uncovers the existence of an alien race using the Earth as a nursery to raise its young.

Writing as Conor Daly, he published a three-book mystery series featuring Kieran Lenahan, who quit the practice of law to become a golf pro. Bouncing between the professional tour and a sedate country club, Kieran cannot shake the problems that bedeviled his legal career.

In Local Knowledge, a dead client’s testamentary request that Kieran auction a set of rare German golf clubs enmeshes him in a murderous conspiracy with roots in World War II.

In Buried Lies, Kieran is falsely accused of torching his own pro shop on the same day that his long-time caddie falls in front of a train. Only Kieran believes that the two events are connected.

In Outside Agency, Kieran wakes up in a strange apartment next to a woman who happens to be dead. He has no memory of who she is or how he got there, but needs to find out fast to save his own neck.

Writing as K.J. Egan, he published Where It Lies, which features Jenny Chase, a single mom and country club pro. This book opens with the apparent suicide of a greenskeeper, who is survived by his wife and autistic teenage son. When the greenskeeper’s life insurer disclaims its million dollar policy based on a suicide clause, Jenny sets out to prove that the death was murder. Along the way, she uncovers even more horrible secrets.

Writing as Kevin Egan, he wrote three legal thrillers primarily set in the New York County Courthouse in lower Manhattan, where he worked for 30 years.

Midnight, a Kirkus Best Book of 2013, is a noir-ish thriller based on a simple premise: when a judge dies, his staff keep their jobs until the end of that calendar year. So when a judge quietly expires in his chambers on the morning of New Year’s Eve, his clerk and secretary face unemployment by close of business. Neither can afford to be out of a job, so they concoct a deceptively simple plan – smuggle the judge’s body out of the courthouse to make it look like he died at home and after the critical hour of midnight. The plan seems to work – until it doesn’t.

In The Missing Piece, the disputed ownership of a fabulous hoard of ancient Roman silver ends up as the subject of a trial in the New York County Courthouse . The ill-fated first trial ends with a courtroom invasion, the shooting of a court officer, and the theft of an urn worth $5 million. Three years later, the parties re-assemble for the re-trial. The judge is secretly pregnant but determined to handle the trial before moving on to the next phase of her life. The paralyzed officer, convinced that the missing piece never left the courthouse, directs a fellow officer on a literal treasure hunt though the iconic building. Meanwhile, the gunmen are circling with an even more daring plan to disrupt the trial.

In A Shattered Circle, a judge is suffering from dementia, and his devoted wife has successfully kept his condition a secret while scrambling to find a treatment that will arrest his steady decline. Then the bad stuff happens. A persistent private investigator needs to question the judge about the murder of a country lawyer – a crime that has no apparent connection to the judge. An angry litigant has filed a judicial complaint, starting a process that could reveal the judge’s dementia. And a court officer who is trying to exonerate a dying friend of an ancient murder has stumbled across a secret the judge’s wife buried long ago..

Kevin’s short fiction has appeared repeatedly in the following mystery magazines: Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Mystery Tribune, and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. His mainstream stories have app ...more

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I flew through this book. The writing is smooth and the multi-faceted time-line and point of view narrations are expertly employed. This more mainstream/literary novel by a writer known for her mystery/thrillers was a leap to a new level.
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“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

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“Art, she said, is more nuanced than life. If a teacher is lecturing and looking out of smudged windows, smeared with obscenities (sure enough, ours were) it doesn't mean anything, in life, except that the cleaning crews are lazy. But in a story, if a professor is lecturing and the windows are smudged, we are obliged to think that his words are similarly untrandescent, right? ...
One of the great problems with artists, she said, is that they don't keep nuance and nature distinct. Import raw nature into a story or a poem and you've only ruined a story. Import nuance into life and you'll go mad. There'll suddenly be too much significance everywhere, a message in everything.”
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