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I'm Robert Downs, and I just had my first mystery novel, Falling Immortality, published last August. My publisher and I are hoping it is the first in an ongoing series.

Book Description:

Debut, hard-boiled mystery fiction for men. Stephen King’s son describes a fitting genre as MANfiction (the opposite of Chick lit).

Casey Holden, former cop, current PI in Virginia Beach, VA, screens his clients the way he screens his women, based on whichever drop-dead gorgeous woman happens to waltz through his door first and manages to hold his attention. So when Felicity Farren, widow-at-large, struts into his office asking him to solve the two-year-old murder of her husband Artis, she intrigues him. When Casey starts digging, he learns the murder isn’t what it seems to be and he doesn’t have a big enough shovel to unearth the truth. And to top it all off, his former rival at the police department, Greg Gilman, is determined to disrupt his investigation. Casey's challenge is to learn what really happened to Artis, and why Gilman can’t seem to remove his head from his butt. And he’ll need all of his wits to complete the task.

"Think of Mike Hammer. Then think of James Bond (as portrayed in the films, not the one in the books). Merge them into a single character and you have Casey Holden, PI. Add a plot that could have come from the pen of Mickey Spillane. A cold case, sexy women, and dialog that races along like Holden's Viper fast, flashy, and eye-popping. Falling Immortality is, for fans of macho, slick talking, wise cracking sleuths, a must read." --Frederick Ramsay, author of the Ike Schwartz mysteries (Poisoned Pen Press)

"Like a post-modern Mike Hammer, Holden doesn't lack self-confidence or the quick comeback or the tendency to find trouble. Robert Downs' debut novel, Falling Immortality, skillfully tips its fedora at the hard-boiled mystery genre. It's fast-paced, tightly structured and keeps you guessing until the end. This will be a writer and series to watch." --Jon Talton, author of the David Mapstone Mysteries and the Cincinnati Casebooks

Robert Downs
http://www.RobertDowns.net

Congratulations on your novel!

Thank you! It's a great feeling to see your work in print.