Sometimes it’s unclear who deserves a favor…
Despite her life-changing injury, Dee Rommel is as determined and scrappy as ever. Still adjusting to her new life working for her godfather, private investigator Gordy Greer, Dee is ready to try out her hi-tech running blade, returning to the annual 10K competition.
A mysterious car crashes and burns in the middle of Portland, Maine’s Casco Bay Bridge. A young, once-sex-trafficked woman is killed and Dee finds herself protecting orphaned Yuusuf, a high school valedictorian who may be able to point to the murderer.
When a toxic web of crime is revealed, both traditional and extended family dynamics are in play, as well as greed and ambition. Old relationships haunt Dee when nothing or no one is as they seem. She has only 8 days to keep her pursuit of justice in play, fighting for her allies and her own life.
My Take:
Welcome back, Dee Rommel. It’s a bit like getting back together with some dear, old friends to catch up on things as she has continued to regain important parts of her life before her accident. In some way, the 10K race Dee participates in is symbolic of her enduring drive to overcome her challenges, both personal and professional. But it doesn’t take long for another complicated situation to present itself.
A tragic traffic accident on an iconic bridge turns into a mystery as Dee is drawn into an ever-evolving tangle of intrigue, corruption, and exploitation. 8 DAYS is a fast-paced, thrilling, page-turner Selbo skillfully reveals the key elements of the crime mystery for our tenacious, justice-seeking, badass, sleuth to unravel.
8 DAYS is the latest installment in the award-winning, crime, procedural, mystery, noir, suspense, and thriller series that includes 9 DAYS and 10 DAYS. Once again. Dee has one less day to figure out what’s going on in her fair city and break open a case that involves a disgusting ring of unsavory characters whose greed exceeds any glimmer of their remaining humanity.
With each installment of this compelling series, Selbo adroitly fashions a vivid tapestry of the scenic wonders of coastal Maine and the city she loves as a backdrop for the nefarious actions of criminals who infest Portland. Dee is a fascinatingly complex, richly developed, flawed protagonist who we cannot help but admire. We pull for her to overcome adversity and frustration in sleuthing out the truth in solving the mystery, and despite the complexities of the knotted mess Selbo presents for her to resolve, we are never disappointed. And that is why this series is a must-read for lovers of crime mysteries.
Jule Selbo grew up in Fargo, North Dakota. She is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and academic in film history. Her mystery/romance FIND ME IN FLORENCE (Pandamoon Publishing, Fall 2019), inspired by the art, beauty, romance, and history of Florence, Italy was written while working with students in Florence, Italy, and was awarded FIRST PLACE in the Chatelaine Awards for best women’s fiction/romance. Her book BREAKING BARRIERS, based on the life of 18th-century scientist Laura Bassi was released in April 2020 and is a finalist for the Goethe Award. Her historical fiction book, DREAMS OF DISCOVERY – BASED ON THE LIFE OF JOHN CABOT, was released Fall of 2018 by Mentoris/Barbera Publishing. She is an award-winning American screenwriter and playwright with work in feature film, television, and animation. She has worked with filmmakers and producers such as George Lucas, Michael Newell, Aaron Spelling, and Roland Joffe as well as with all the major Hollywood studios; produced credits include projects for Disney, Columbia Pictures, Paramount, and Universal.
She has also written for theater, with productions in New York and regional theaters around the United States).
As an academic, she has contributed to numerous journals with essays on the History of Screenwriters, her book (co-written/edited with Jill Nelmes) WOMEN SCREENWRITERS, AN INTERNATIONAL GUIDE delineates the rich past of female screenwriters from the 1890s to today. Jule was co-editor for eight years of the successful “Journal of Screenwriting” (Intellect Press) and has written extensively on film history, screenwriting, and film genre. She holds writing seminars around the world and is a script consultant for production companies and writers in Hollywood. As a professor in the Cinema and TV Arts Department at California State University, Fullerton, she has written two books on Screenwriting Structure that include information on the business of screenwriting: SCREENPLAY: BUILDING STORY THROUGH CHARACTER (Routledge) and REWRITE: FIRST DRAFT TO MARKETPLACE (Gardner); her book is FILM GENRE FOR THE SCREENWRITER (Routledge) explores all the main film genres, their components and uses for film narratives. She has been an invited guest lecturer on film genre and screenwriting at New York University, Moscow’s film school VGIK, Oxford Bridges University in Oxford, England, Bournemouth University in the UK, Disney Writers Program, Emerson College in Boston, and other venues and is a member of Screenwriters Research Network. She has earned her Ph.D. with her work in Film Genre, its historical components, and how a knowledge of film genre can be used by the screenwriter in the constructive stages of a screenplay.
For more information visit www.juleselbo.com
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