Everybody Pays
Cadillac Holland Mysteries Book 6
by H. Max Hiller
BRONZE MEDALIST 2022 GLOBAL BOOK AWARDS
Detective Cadillac Holland finds himself performing a dangerous dance, staying a step behind a mobster’s missing diaries and a step ahead of the criminal factions who want them.
Marion ‘Sunset’ Puglisi’s diaries go missing on the eve of the mobster’s release from prison and place Detective Holland in the middle of a brewing gang war between the remnants of New Orleans’ Italian mobsters and outside criminal factions, which includes the nearby Dixie Mafia and an ambitious Russian gangster.
Everyone is prepared to pay whatever it costs to possess the diaries, and even Detective Holland finds the price higher than he expects.
REVIEW
5 out of 5
When you think NOLA, you don’t normally think about the mafia – but it has a rich history there, and that history is exactly what Holland finds himself wrapped up in. Although this is book six in the series, you can easily dive right in without feeling lost. Hiller does an excellent job of introducing the characters and the setting, letting you slip right into the thick of it all. There were a lot of chess pieces on the board, but each had their own personalities and motivations, making it easy to keep track of them all. There’s a lot of tension right from the start, whoever holds the journals also holds a lot of power, and time is not on Holland’s side. The twists will keep you wondering, and until you reach the very end, you can never be sure who will end up on top, and in possession of the journals. If you enjoy high stakes crime thrillers, you’ll want to grab this!
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
My relationship with New Orleans began with a job cooking in a cafe on Bourbon Street at the age of seventeen. My foodservice resume now includes many of New Orleans’ iconic music and dining destinations. I no longer reside in New Orleans full time but I keep to the expat creed of “Be a New Orleanian wherever you are.”
A devoted reader of detective and crime novels, I have worked as a chef on a boat traveling the inland waterways since Hurricane Katrina and began thinking up stories about a detective living in post-Katrina New Orleans, which I now write in my spare time.
My life is divided between working on the water and preserving a Victorian-era home in Hannibal, Missouri that I share with my wife and our rescue pets, which include a neurotic wolfhound/terrier mix and too many cats.