Can two Sleuths put these two puzzles together before college starts in September? ➱ Recruiting Murder a Murder Mystery by Frank Lazarus Book Tour with Guest Post & Giveaway

 

 

Can two Sleuths put these two puzzles together before college starts in September?

Recruiting Murder

A Brown & McNeil Murder Mystery Book 3

by Frank Lazarus

Genre: Murder Mystery, Crime Thriller

The third installment in the Brown and McNeil Mystery Series

Lenny Goldstein and his company, Future Stars, evaluate high school and collegiate basketball talent and sell their rankings to colleges and NBA teams.

From its humble beginnings in 1975, Future Stars had grown into a behemoth; with fifteen NBA teams and seventy-eight colleges paying subscriptions for his rankings.

Lenny is semi-retired these days, with his son and son-in-law running the business until he gets a call from an old buddy in Newport News, who wants him to come look at a high school kid, Lincoln Anderson, in Emporia, Virginia. He believes this Anderson kid has been overlooked by everyone, including Future Stars.

Concurrently, Lenny gets a call from an old buddy, the iconic coach of Duke University, to see what he knows about the college decision of Tyler Longenecker, Future Star’s #5 ranked high school senior from a premier prep school in the tony Boston suburbs. 

All seems to be going on script until graduation, when both Lincoln and Tyler are involved in a death and a roofie rape. Suddenly, Lenny’s getting calls about both kids.

Lincoln's family is related to James McNeil in Philly, and they call him for help. James and his buddy, Detective Vernon Brown of the Philly PD, jump into the car and head South on I-95.

Can the two Sleuths from The Murder Gambit and The Phenom put these two puzzles together before college starts in September?

Once again, Author Frank Lazarus has produced a gripping, suspenseful story that will keep you off Netflix for a day or two.

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The Phenom

A Brown & McNeil Murder Mystery Book 2

Even before he has played his first game in high school, it would seem nothing can stop Bo Campbell's meteoric rise to stardom in the basketball world. In Philadelphia, people are already comparing him to his Overbrook High School predecessor, Wilt Chamberlain.

But his dreams are suddenly shattered when he is arrested for the murder of his best friend, Sherman Claxton.

Detective Vernon Brown, and James McNeil, his friend and Bo's grandfather, search for the truth, but James goes rogue, and soon finds himself in the dangerous underbelly of the Philadelphia drug sub-culture, where the stakes are high and it's hard to tell who's friend and who's foe.

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The Murder Gambit

A Brown & McNeil Murder Mystery Book 1 

An unexplained death in a nursing home. A man falls from a balcony. A hit and run in the middle of a city street. An execution in a home. A woman collapses dead after a date.

Five murders. Five methods. Five police jurisdictions.

What's the connection?

Philadelphia-area detectives are under pressure to solve the murders, while dealing with their own issues.

Speeding like the lead car at Talladega towards a shocking conclusion, is The Murder Gambit a Shakespearean tragedy or a sinister reality?

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Where were you born/grew up?

 

The Western section of Philadelphia. Philadelphia and its suburbs are the setting for  THE MURDER GAMBIT, and THE PHENOM is mostly set in Philly inter-city.

While I will always have roots, friends, and family in Philadelphia, I now spend more time on Hilton Head Island, SC.

 

Which of your novels can you imagine being made into a movie?

 

I am glad you asked. Several fans of my first two novels told me they thought both would make great NetFlix Series’.

I try to keep my phone line open in case they try to reach me.

 

What inspired you to write this book?

When I first thought forty years ago about writing a novel, I thought it would have a basketball theme, and THE PHENOM AND RECRUITING MURDER are hybrids of that plot.

But the Murder Gambit came out of my work in the life insurance industry. I can’t say much without giving it away, but it is not the typical WIFE KILLS HUSBAND FOR THE LIFE INSURANCE PROCEEDS

 

Fun Facts/Behind the Scenes/Did You Know? type tidbits about the author, the book, or the book's writing process?

Vernon Brown is a hybrid of two Overbrook coaches, Blinky Brown and Vernon Young, but physically resembled Brown.

Other first and last names were also borrowed from people I know or knew.

I took some liberties with some of the locations in both books, but many are factual.

I used my actual boyhood address for one of the suspects in the Gambit. A neighborhood friend caught me on this.

Frank Lazarus was born and raised in West Philadelphia and attended Overbrook High School, as you may have guessed from his writings.

After graduating high school, Frank spent two years in the U.S. Army during the VietNam War. After his service, he completed his 

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration at St. Joseph’s University, in Philadelphia.

He was in the Financial Services and Life Insurance industry for fifty-three years before he retired at the end of 2021.

Frank has three adult children and five grandchildren.

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