Night Tremors: A Rick Cahill Novel
Matt Coyle
Oceanview, Jun 2 2015, $26.95
ISBN 9781608091492
A decade ago in Santa Barbara someone murdered Colleen
Cahill. The media and the police
suspected her husband Rick, then a cop.
Though never convicted of any crime, feeling guilty over their estranged
relationship before her death, and well aware his brothers and sisters in blue
treat him as a pariah they never will be back-up, Rick resigned. He became a La Jolla private investigator
working for former LJPD detective Bob Reitzmeyer
mostly handling cases in which clients seek proof of cheating spouses.
Eight years ago, then eighteen year old Randall Eddington was
convicted of bludgeoning to death with a golf
club his parents and sister.
However recently new evidence has surfaced that challenges the proof the
San Quentin resident killed his family.
Randall’s septuagenarian paternal grandparents retain attorney Timothy Buckley and want Rick to verify the validity
of the new information. Knowing he may
lose his PI job due to his boss’ law enforcement connection and believing the
young man committed the violent massacre; Cahill takes on the case when he
learns La Jolla Police Chief Tony Moretti led the Eddington carnage investigation.
The second Cahill mystery (see Yesterday’s
Echo) is a tense hard-boiled noir that grips readers from the moment
the emotionally damaged sleuth takes on the case. Loaded with suspense within a dark
atmosphere, Matt Coyle authors a gritty
detective thriller with an astonishing finish.
Harriet Klausner
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