Lights Out Summer, Rich Zahradnik
Lights Out Summer, Rich Zahradnik
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Lights Out Summer
A Coleridge Taylor Mystery

Author: Rich Zahradnik

Narrator: Donald Corren

Unabridged: 8 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2017

Synopsis

In March 1977, ballistics link murders going back six months to the same Charter Arms Bulldog .44. A serial killer, Son of Sam, is on the loose. But Coleridge Taylor can’t compete with the armies of reporters fighting New York’s tabloid war—only rewrite what they get. Constantly on the lookout for victims who need their stories told, he uncovers other killings being ignored because of the media circus. He goes after one, the story of a young Black woman gunned down in her apartment building the same night Son of Sam struck elsewhere in Queens.The story entangles Taylor with a wealthy Park Avenue family at war with itself. Just as he’s closing in on the killer and his scoop, the July 13–14 blackout sends New York into a 24-hour orgy of looting and destruction. Taylor and his PI girlfriend Samantha Callahan head out into the darkness, where a steamy night of mob violence awaits them.In the midst of the chaos, a suspect in Taylor’s story goes missing. Desperate, he races to a confrontation that will either break the story—or Taylor.

About Rich Zahradnik

Rich Zahradnik has been a journalist for more than thirty years, working as a reporter and editor in all major news media, including online, newspaper, broadcast, magazine, and wire services. He lives with his wife and son in Pelham, New York, where he teaches elementary school kids how to publish online and print newspapers.

About Donald Corren

Donald Corren is an audiobook narrator and a New York actor with leading credits on and Off-Broadway, as well as numerous television appearances. On Broadway, he costarred with Judy Kaye in the critically acclaimed production of Souvenir, and replaced Harvey Fierstein in the seminal production of Torch Song Trilogy. His Off-Broadway appearances include The Soap Myth, Dietrich & Chevalier, The Last Sunday in June, Stephen Sondheim’s Saturday Night, and the original New York production of Tomfoolery. His television credits include eight seasons as forensic tech Medill on NBC’s Law & Order, as well as his current role as Dr. Kurian on Syfy’s Z Nation.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Skip

Once again, author Zahradnik takes us back in time to the 1970s in New York City: sights, sounds, economics, politics, crime, race, society, etc. Reporter Coleridge Taylor refuses to be a lemming and report on the Son of Sam murders, choosing instead to investigate the death of a college-educated bl......more

Goodreads review by Darryl

"Lights Out Summer" is #4 in a series of mystery novels by Rich Zahradnik featuring crime reporter Coleridge Taylor. This episode is set in 1970s New York City at the time of the infamous ‘Son of Sam’ murders. It’s summer and with a serial killer on the loose the city’s inhabitants are not only feel......more

Goodreads review by InD'tale Magazine

Rich Zahradnik’s gritty writing allows the reader to feel he is with Taylor going into rough territory in New York, digging to get his story. Read full review in the 2017 September issue of InD'tale Magazine.......more

Goodreads review by Dogsandbooks

WOW! That rarest of unicorns, a fabulous new author I knew nothing about. Really great, a 4.5 star rating. Great characters, super atmosphere, believable twisty plot, interesting and believable investigator. Super impressed, want to read more by this author. DPL book. Read in ONE sitting (fortunatel......more

Quotes

“The personable protagonist, reporter Coleridge Taylor, takes the reader on a journey to not only find a killer, but highlight the complexity of human nature.” RT Book Reviews (4 stars)

“Former journalist Zahradnik does an excellent job capturing this moment in time for New York’s print media, when several papers were folding and Rupert Murdoch was coming on the scene.” Library Journal

“Zahradnik nails the period, with its pack journalism, racism overt and subtle, and the excesses of the wealthy at places like Studio 54, as he shows how one dogged reporter can make a difference.” Publishers Weekly

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