Blog Spotlight - Death in the Family - Lanny Larcinese
Death in the Family
by Lanny Larcinese
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GENRE: Crime thriller
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BLURB:
Donny
Lentini is a talented young man hungry for his mother's love. To please her, he
becomes guardian angel to his mob-wannabe father. When the father is murdered
and found with his hands hacked off, Donny is dealt a set of cards in a game
called vengeance. The pot is stacked high with chips; the ante, his soul and
the lives of loved-ones. With the help of friends—ex-con, defrocked Jesuit Bill
Conlon along with former high-school nemesis, Antwyne Claxton—he digs for
whether the murder had anything to do with the mob's lust for a real estate
parcel owned by the family of Donny's lover. He's new at this game. He doesn't
cheat, but plays his cards well. And he gets what he wants.
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Excerpt One:
There is a purity to poker, moments
of truth free of the ambiguity of motive or morals, moments philosophers never
examine—clean moments—as when a Great White draws back its lips to embrace
somebody’s neck with its four-inch serrated teeth—moments German Kruger never
understood and might put his head at risk .
One by one I looked them in the eye.
They all dropped except German, who raised and called. I flipped my hole cards.
“Three cowboys.”
I raked in the seven hundred dollar
pot. Any day I stuck a pencil in German’s eye was a good day. “What is it with
you?” he said. “You win four, five pots
every Friday.”
Dad kicked my shin under There is a
purity to poker, moments of truth free of the ambiguity of motive or morals,
moments philosophers never examine—clean moments—as when a Great White draws
back its lips to embrace somebody’s neck with its four-inch serrated
teeth—moments German Kruger never understood and might put his head at risk .
One by one I looked them in the eye.
They all dropped except German, who raised and called. I flipped my hole cards.
“Three cowboys.”
I raked in the seven hundred dollar
pot. Any day I stuck a pencil in German’s eye was a good day. “What is it with you?” he said. “You win four, five pots every Friday.”
Dad kicked my shin under the
table.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Lanny
Larcinese ‘s short work has appeared in magazines and has won a handful of
local prizes. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He’s a native
mid-westerner transplanted to the City of Brotherly Love where he has been
writing fiction for seven years. When not writing, he lets his daughter,
Amanda, charm him out of his socks, and works at impressing Jackie, his
long-time companion who keeps him honest and laughing—in addition to being his
first-line writing critic. He also spends more time than he should on Facebook
but feels suitably guilty for it.
https://www.facebook.com/lanny.larcinese
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Family-Lanny-Larcinese-ebook/dp/B07XSLCCL1/
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Thanks so much for sharing your terrific book. I sure enjoyed reading about it and appreciate you taking the time to share it with us.
ReplyDeleteThank you, James, sorry for the discombobulation in the excerpt, it's a little confusing, but cyber-world bugs are a way of life anymore. The real, actual book is easier to read!
DeleteGreat excerpt, thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteHope you get a chance to read the book, Victoria. Thanks for posting.
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