As to go naked is the best disguise.
One night in Rock Creek Park an African-American undercover Metro police detective, Sooty Settles died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound amid the cherry blossoms of Washington D.C.—the price a good cop paid for going on the down-low. But his widow, Etta, isn’t buying it. Her husband had been murdered.
At the request of the widow Frank Rococo, who catches shoplifters for a living, begins his private investigation with Etta completely unaware that it was Rococo who shot her husband in the chest with a Colt .45 revolver—except the autopsy reveals Det. Settles was fatally struck behind the ear with a bullet fired from a snub-nose .38 Special.
Park Police hands the case over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where it’s promptly closed as a firearm suicide and classified top secret. And it’s here where Rococo’s gut goes to work.
Small clues lead to big discoveries until bigger clues uncover a situation far greater than Rococo could have possibly suspected: The gatekeeper of corruption on the steps to Capitol Hill precipitates a meltdown of the financial system by detonating a fiscal time-bomb on Wall Street that reveberates around the world.
But an even BIGGER surprise awaits Rococo when he learns the naked truth about who killed Sooty Settles.
In the genre of Tom Clancy and Dan Brown, the characters were well drawn, the story well written, ethnically diverse, the plot is very complex. Good for murder mystery fans.
—Alberta Staigerwald, Towson, MD
A good, exciting read. It was frightening to realize that a few people in government could manipulate the legal system and the economic system. The sleazy sexy side, be it fiction, might be responsible for a lot of failed relationships. The ethnic background of characters will cause you to imagine them when you move around our area. For me, everything was just right.
—John Dannett, Washington, D.C.
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Frank Rococo Murder Mystery
ISBN# 978-0-97233-27-1-2
Authors who work in less traditional genres for black readers—thrillers, horror and science-fiction—relish the opportunity to make their work known. For Frederick Louis Richardson, author of BLACK RUSH, a horror tale about a vampire aboard a Middle Passage ship in the late 1700's...
"( It) is worth the struggle to introduce folks to a genre that's been around forever. We're able to do a lot more with the genre, as we have lived with racial terror our whole lives."
Richardson sees a world of opportunity for black writers. The horror category has universal applications.
—Yawandale Birchett, Washington Post
"Black Rush is one of the best horror books that I've read in a long time." —Amazon.com
by Frederick Louis Richardson
I met Frederick Richardson only six (6) years ago, but feel as if I have know him for ages. That is because I got to know him through his writings. So, I feel as if I know him as I would William Wadsworth Longfellow, Ernest Hemingway, mark Twain and Henry David Thoreau. Like those writers, Frederick has a unique ability to create characters and circumstances which not only captures the reader's interest, but provides them with a distinct appreciation for his creative moods.
In his first novel, BLACK RUSH, Frederick Richardson combines not just a vivid imagination, but an obvious love for creating characters that his readers can identify with and appreciate. He has the ability to transform ordinary situations into extraordinary events and isn't this what authors are supposed to do? However, many fail at this task. Frederick does not.
—Robert Harris
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