A full-length Sam Jenkins Novel. Published in trade paperback format.
REAL BOOK. Real cover. Real pages.
Available January 20, 2011
Sam Jenkins never thought about being a fish out of water during the twenty years he spent solving crimes in New York. But things change, and after retiring to Tennessee, he gets that feeling. Jenkins becomes a cop again and is thrown headlong into a murder investigation and a steaming kettle of fish, down-home style.
The victim, Cecil Lovejoy, couldn’t have deserved it more. His death was the inexorable result of years misspent and appears to be no great loss, except the prime suspect is Sam’s personal friend.
Jenkins’ abilities are attacked when Lovejoy’s influential widow urges politicians to reassign the case to state investigators.
Feeling like “a pork chop at a bar mitzvah” in his new workplace, Sam suspects something isn’t kosher when the family tries to force him out of the picture.
In true Jenkins style, Sam turns common police practice on its ear to insure an innocent man doesn’t falls prey to an imperfect system and the guilty party receives appropriate justice.
A NEW PROSPECT takes the reader through a New South resolutely clinging to its past and traditional way of keeping family business strictly within the family.
One potential witness said, "Whitey wasn't the best-liked member of the reenacting community, but who would have thought he'd end up like this?"
When Prospect, Tennessee Police Chief Sam Jenkins attends the town's annual heritage festival it not only satisfies his interest in Early American history, it draws him into the investigation of another murder on "the peaceful side of the Smokies."
Local antique dealer, G. Nobel Whitehead, has been savagely killed. As the former New York detective wades through a cadre of quirky local characters to learn how the victim's shady dealings lead to his demise, more questions keep popping up.
Did Whitehead's attraction to a half-Cherokee woman trouble her fiance enough to commit murder? Or did the victim cheat one of his customers? The only thing for certain is that someone really wanted him dead, and killed him in the foulest manner.
Sam Jenkins investigates the shotgun murders of an aging movie star and the younger man with whom she was having an affair.
Two of the suspects include the woman’s husband, a Hollywood producer, and the young man’s father, a high-powered attorney.
Sam knows he’s not dealing with the usual down-home crowd from Prospect, Tennessee as his inquiry spans the country from California to a prestigious country club in Knoxville.
In a theatrical ending, Jenkins again emulates his favorite fictional detective, Nero Wolfe, by assembling all the players and exposing the killer.
THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN BANK JOB
Sam Jenkins’ law enforcement colleagues know he’s quick to ask a professional favor. But when a beautiful Treasury agent asks for his assistance, he balks.
Special Agent Lucy Frobisher wants Sam to re-open a forty-three year old investigation and find her father’s killers.
Reluctantly, the ex-New York detective turned Tennessee police chief delves into the robbery-homicide and finds himself back in the 1960’s, chasing down a group of anti-government anarchists who robbed banks to finance their violent revolution.
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Chief Sam Jenkins
Like the author, Sam Jenkins grew up in New York and worked for a large Long Island police department for twenty years.
In 2006 the retired detective lieutenant took the job of chief at Prospect PD, a small department in a little city tucked into the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.
Sam brings his unique style of law enforcement to the citizens of East Tennessee in these novels and stories.
Sam Jenkins never thought about being a fish out of water during the twenty years he spent solving crimes in New York. But things change, and after retiring to Tennessee, he gets that feeling. Jenkins becomes a cop again and is thrown headlong into a murder investigation and a steaming kettle of fish, down-home style.
