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Jon de Silva is a New Orleans native who earned his B.S. and M.B.A. at the University of New Orleans. In 2010, he wrote his first novel The Curse and the early short stories from The Acts of 1, which he published in 2012. In 2013, he published his first novel, The Curse, a novelette, The Hunted, and the novella, Rickshaw, New Mexico. In 2020, he published Justice: A Joel Brent Mystery and Second Chance in 2022. He now resides in the Greater New Orleans area.

You can connect with him on Facebook, Amazon, Instagram, Twitter, and on his website, www.jonjdesilva.com.
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True Detective Stories From the archives of the Pinkertons

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