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Second Cousin Once Removed

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Henry Atkinson’s life as an attorney is slow, predictable, and lonely, to boot, since their divorce left his ex-wife with custody of the kids. To fill the time, he’s taken up a hobby of genealogy, but it doesn’t do much to spice up his mundane routine.

Until the day he prods at a dead end on one of the branches of his family tree. Who is Shelley—a cousin he’s never met nor even heard of in years? Despite being warned to leave well enough alone, Henry continues his investigation of the man, though it yields little more than a disturbing criminal record that finally convinces him to drop the matter. But Shelley is a man who doesn’t appreciate being looked for . . . and now he knows someone has been looking. Before he knows what’s hit him, Henry is propelled suddenly into a mayhem of ominous threats, mysterious strangers, and running for his life. Second Cousin Once Removed is a fast-paced sweaty-palm thriller that will keep you hooked until the last page.

Status: OUT OF STOCK INDEFINITELY

Henry Atkinson’s life as an attorney is slow, predictable, and lonely, to boot, since their divorce left his ex-wife with custody of the kids. To fill the time, he’s taken up a hobby of genealogy, but it doesn’t do much to spice up his mundane routine.

Until the day he prods at a dead end on one of the branches of his family tree. Who is Shelley—a cousin he’s never met nor even heard of in years? Despite being warned to leave well enough alone, Henry continues his investigation of the man, though it yields little more than a disturbing criminal record that finally convinces him to drop the matter. But Shelley is a man who doesn’t appreciate being looked for . . . and now he knows someone has been looking. Before he knows what’s hit him, Henry is propelled suddenly into a mayhem of ominous threats, mysterious strangers, and running for his life. Second Cousin Once Removed is a fast-paced sweaty-palm thriller that will keep you hooked until the last page.

SPECS

  • Imprint: Brown Books Publishing Group

  • BISAC: Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense

  • Format: Paperback

  • Page Count: 232

  • Publication Date: September 8, 2020

  • ISBN-13: 9781612544526

  • Dimensions: 5" x 8"

  • US List Price: $15.99

  • Carton QTY: 20

AUTHOR BIO

Ken Toppell wanted to write when he went to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He was there during a tumultuous time, the start of the sit-in campaigns, the onset of the civil rights movement. He graduated with a degree in History and Political Science before he went on to Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, and postgraduate training in Houston, Texas, and in the army. Over the next forty-eight years, Ken did his writing on medical wards and in intensive care units. As a surgeon, Ken saw organ transplants go from rare procedures only done by celebrity doctors to a new surgical specialty. Passionate physicians implemented new forms of medical research and brought HIV/AIDS from an epidemic with a 100 percent mortality rate to an outpatient disease. There were new tools and new drugs, and Ken learned why medicine is called a practice. As the years passed by, Ken began to give lectures in American History, and he had some time to do a new kind of writing. He now lives in Plano, Texas, where he reads, writes, and enjoys life with his wife of fifty-three years.

PRAISE

"The action kicks off like a firecracker, and doesn't stop until the bitter end. For fans of Greg Iles and David Baldacci."
- Marcus Lowry- Reader's Advisory Librarian

"Kenneth Toppell's prose rings with the crisp diction of traditional noir but tempered with a contemporary sly irony. The reader is immediately drawn into the vortex of events that ratchets up the tension from chapter to chapter. This is a thrilling mystery you will not want to put down."
-Nancy Ford, editor and reviewer