Hello lovelies! It gives me great pleasure today to host S. A.
Cosby and his new book, “My Darkest Prayer”!
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My
Darkest Prayer
by S.
A. Cosby
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GENRE: Mystery/Suspense
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BLURB:
Whether
it's working at his cousin's funeral home or tossing around the local riff raff
at his favorite bar, Nathan Waymaker is a man who knows how to handle the
bodies. A former Marine and Sheriff's deputy, Nathan has built a reputation in
his small Southern town as a man who can help when all other avenues have been
exhausted. When a local minister with grandiose ambitions is found dead, Nathan
is approached by his parishioners who feel the local police are dragging their
feet with the investigation. What starts out as an easy payday soon descends
into a maze of mayhem filled with wannabe gangsters, vicious crime lords, porn
stars, crooked police officers and a particularly treacherous preacher and his
mysterious wife. Nathan must use all his varied skills and some of his wit to
navigate the murky waters of small town corruption even as dark secrets of his
own threaten to come to the surface.
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EXCERPT ONE:
I
handle the bodies.
That's
what I say when people ask me what I do for a living. I find that gets one of
two responses. They drift away to the other side of the room and give me a
sideways glance the rest of the night or they let out a nervous laugh and move
the conversation in another, less macabre direction. I could always say I work
at a funeral home, but where's the fun in that?
Every
once in a while when I was in the Corps, someone would see me at Starbucks that
modern mecca Wal-Mart in my utility uniform. Sometimes they’d catch me in my
dress blues after a military ball just trying to grab something before heading
back to the base. They would walk up to me and say, “Thank you for your
service.” I'd mumble something like “No, thank you for your support” or some
other pithy rejoinder, and they would wander away with a nice satisfied look on
their faces. Sometimes what I wanted to say was, “I took care of the bodies.
The bodies with the legs blown off or the hands shredded. The bodies full of
ball bearings and nails and whatever some kid could find to build his IED. I
loaded the bodies up and dragged them back to the base, then went back out on
another patrol and prayed to a God that seemed to be only half-listening that
today wasn't the day that someone would have to take care of my body.”
But
I don't think that would have given them the same warm and fuzzy feeling.
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AUTHOR BIO:
S. A. Cosby is a
writer whose work has been published in numerous magazine and anthologies. His
story "Slant-Six" received an honorable mention in Best Mystery
Stories of 2016. His life experiences include being a retail manager, a
bouncer, a forklift driver, a landscaper, a roadie, a construction worker, a
mortuary attendant, and he once wore a cow suit when he worked for Chik Fil-A.
He majored in English at Christopher Newport University and now lives in
Gloucester, Virginia.
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ReplyDeleteI am enjoying these tours and finding all the terrific books my family is enjoying reading. Thanks for bringing them to us and keep up the good work.
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ReplyDeleteSounds like an interesting book, thanks for sharing :)
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