Roland Hopkins, Sr

Spring Training Murders brings the reader back to simpler times right after World War Two when the Boston Red Sox were breaking their humps to beat the Damn Yankees for the pennant and Wold Series. But that all takes an explosive back seat when a rookie pitching phenom falls fowl, disappears, and shows up murdered. The first place home team needs no bad publicity, so the exasperated owner hires a local, hard-boiled PI Jonathan Dark to suit up and pass himself off as a professional ballplayer. Packed with nonstop drama and richly drawn authentic characters, the action thriller hits a vating love story, a violent kidnapping, much mafia mayhem, and a hit man assassination. Whodunit? The rapid page-tuner leads in many directions holding the reader often breathless and in suspense right up 'till the games' over.