Rookie Cop, Cold Case: Secrets Linger in the Catskills with Author RL Carpentier III

My guest today on the Online for Authors podcast is RL Carpentier III, author of the book Our Lady of the Overlook. Rodney is a lifelong writer of stories and poems and songs and now, novels.  As a kid he and his mom would try to plot whodunits on Sunday afternoons; in middle school he and his friends tried to develop their own superhero comic book; and in college he wrote song lyrics for his pop-punk band Gone Ashley.  But he’s had a novel stuck in his head for the last 20 years and it’s about time for him to let it all out.

Professionally, he has been a storyteller throughout his long law enforcement career.  He has written factually about the mundane to the maniacal. He has told his peers, his bosses, and juries about what he has seen and done, what he’s investigated and what he’s able to prove.  It is a procedural and clinical style; something he has brought over to his fiction writing.   

So, at this crossroad of his life and career, well into his 40’s and in the downswing toward retirement, he is going to live out his dream of being a writer. He has his wife and daughter in his corner and the whole world for an audience.

In my book review, I stated Our Lady of the Overlook is the first in a trilogy of murder suspense novels. And talk about suspense! From the beginning, RL makes the reader wonder who did it and why.

We meet Mike Ellis, a man who has come home to be a cop - but remains in his dead father's shadow, a man who was Police Chief of the town before his heart attack. Before long, he is sucked into a murder investigation that is quite like his father's first murder case and one that has long since gone cold.

Despite no evidence, Mike believes that the two have to be related. But with a 40-year span between them, will he ever be able to prove his theory? But more importantly, will he get the chance? There are those on the force who want to set him up for failure - retribution against his father. And his personal ghosts work against him as well.

This novel is full of intrigue, half-clues, secrets, and trauma, and the ending will leave you wanting more!

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