Freddy Builder is certain he is meant for more. More than his life in corporate-America bondage. More than selling china to bluebloods in Philadelphia’s landmark department store, Chanet’s. Meant for more, meant for better, and lacking only, only an occasion to rise to.
And now that occasion is murder – of Mindi Quintana, an old college flame wanting simply to stay in his past.
Freddy’s crime is major news from the start. Mindi is the beautiful daughter of a renowned Philadelphia businessman whose dramatic fall a few years back captivated the city. A televised trial for Freddy is in the offing. Meanwhile, he is writing the book about his relationship with Mindi - a remorseless rewrite of her life, his own, and their miserable thin involvement.
As excerpts of his book are published to acclaim, he gives articulate, sympathetic jailhouse interviews, publishes ghostwritten articles on prison issues, and coverage goes national. A new celebrity murderer is taking the stage – a killer with a book, a jailhouse literary sensation.
Freddy’s defense attorney, Phillip, watches as his client builds his fame with the bones of his victim. As a career public defender, Phillip thought he’d seen evil in all its incarnations. He’d lost his outrage, his passion for the law, and his marriage along the way. But as Freddy’s case is a turning point for him – the public’s sympathy for the poet-murderer, the rebel, the killer as greater soul – stirs something dormant in Phillip.
To stop Freddy, and to vindicate Mindi, Phillip will have to violate his oath, even break the law. But with the help of Mindi’s best friend Lisa, he gives Mindi back the truth of her life and death. And he’ll deliver a comeuppance to a killer with a book. – FROM THE BOOK BACK
ABOUT THE AUTHOR…Debut novelist, Jeff Cohen, author of The Killing of Mindi Quintana, is a quintessential Philadelphian, a successful attorney, and a prominent business entrepreneur. In an age of endless fascination with celebrity murderers, his novel delivers what all too often is lost: justice.
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FROM THE BOOK FAERY REVIEWS…It took me some “speed reading” to get through the first 100 or so pages but once past the the novel got more engaging and had me turning page after page. Cohen’s main character Freddy reminded me of some creepy guy us females try to avoid. You know the ones who seem nice and appear everywhere you go or keep doing things that make you uncomfortable? Then the moment comes and he snaps (figuratively and literally)…that would be Freddy. For a moment I felt like I needed a bath from the disgust I felt towards Freddy a moment after killing her. Throughout The Killing of Mindi Quintana, you watch the main character Freddy change from an “unnoticeable” man to this viscous fame seeking killer who get’s blind sighted in the end.
NOTE to sensitive readers: This novel does contain cursing and some graphic details of the murder.
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