Tuesday 22 August 2017

2 BY FINGERS MURPHY


A couple from the Kindle collection by author Fingers Murphy. Fingers Murphy is unsurprisingly a pseudonym. The author is a globe-trotting criminal attorney and he values his anonymity.

No website and funny enough all 4 of his books were published the same year - 2011. I wonder if all that lawyering is keeping him too busy to write. On the basis of my first outing with him that's a shame.

Murphy's novella Everything I Tell You is a Lie appeared on the blog a few days ago. Thoughts here.

The two I'm highlighting are Follow the Money and $200 and a Cadillac. I could just as easily chosen The Flaming Motel, but then it would have been a 3 BY feature and that just wouldn't cut it.

Follow the Money (2011)

"MOVE OVER JOHN GRISHAM!" -- Debbi Mack, NY Times Bestselling Author of Identity Crisis and Least Wanted

FOR FANS OF JOHN GRISHAM, STEVE MARTINI, JOHN LESCROART, AND JAMES GRIPPANDO COMES A GRIPPING AND GRITTY NEW VOICE IN LEGAL THRILLERS. GET READY TO LOSE SOME SLEEP!

"ALWAYS ASSUME PEOPLE ARE LYING, BUT NEVER ASSUME YOU KNOW WHY."

Oliver Olson went to law school to help people.

But when one of the world’s most prominent law firms offers him a high paying summer job, he thinks he’d be crazy not to take it. He soon finds himself enthralled by a world of wealth, privilege, and power.

Blinded by his gilded new world, Ollie is slow to see that something is not right with the case he is assigned to work on - a case with no chance of winning, given to a "summer associate" merely to keep him busy.

Are people following him? Is he imagining things? Are they listening to his conversations? Why are people coming out of the woodwork with a sudden interest in a twelve year old murder case? And is it really possible that the wrong man went to prison?

Ollie wants to succeed, but when he sacrifices his own moral standards for a shot at the big time, he winds up staring down the barrel of a gun.

When you’ve sold out and can no longer follow your heart, you can only FOLLOW THE MONEY.

This novel is 75,000 fast-paced words.

About the Author: Fingers Murphy is the pen name of a well known international criminal defense attorney.

$200 and a Cadillac (2011)

Fingers Murphy named one of the "Top Three Indie Crime Fiction Authors" by Crime Fiction Utopia

"The suspense will keep you turning pages, and the dramatic twists in the story will keep your heart racing as the story unfolds." -- CC Jackson, reviewing Follow the Money

Fingers Murphy, author of Top 20 Legal Thrillers Follow the Money and The Flaming Motel, returns with with a fast-paced, crime thriller that will cost you some sleep.

WHEN YOU LIVE BY YOUR OWN RULES, YOU DIE BY THEM TOO.

A bored psychopath rotting away in the Mojave desert . . .

An obsessive contract killer sent to find him . . .

A small town Sheriff hiding from his personal demons . . .

A retired FBI agent itching to get back in the game . . .

And a couple of burn outs with nothing to lose, hell-bent on revenge . . . All they wanted to do was steal something from the company that laid them off and get the hell out of town. But when a coyote drags a human leg onto a lonely desert highway, worlds collide in ways no one can predict.

Find out what happens when your last worldly possessions are $200 AND A CADILLAC and everyone around you will kill to get what they want.



12 comments:

  1. Thanks to your blog, I downloaded a Fingers Murphy kindle book only yesterday - goodness knows when I shall actually get to it though, it's a metaphorical TBR heap rather than a pile now :)

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    1. Haha, I suppose a heap is smaller than a hill or a mountain! Hope you enjoy it, when the time comes.

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  2. From what you've said, Col, it sounds as though he has some well-written stories out there. And I do love that pseudonym!

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    1. I think so too and its definitely a pseudonym that demands attention.

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    2. I like the way he is described as a 'globe-trotting criminal attorney' - is that so he can't be caught & brought to justice??

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    3. Hmm, I might have played a bit fast and loose with the word globe-trotting, his Amazon page says INTERNATIONAL! Maybe if I was in his position I'd stay off the grid. Lawyers, politicians, estate agents, spin doctors....grrr

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  3. He sounds like a very interesting person.

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    1. He's piqued my curiosity - particularly the four books in one year thing, then nothing

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  4. Mmmm, this whole setup is definitely intriguing...

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  5. Col –$200 Caddie is for me. Thanks for pointing the way.

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