About Motor City Shakedown:
Darren Fletcher, once the rising star of Detroit’s criminal justice system, has fallen far. All the way to an office in a smoky dive bar on the wrong side of the city. But a single phone call could be the key to climbing out of his downward spiral: a police brutality victim needs his help, and the family’s willing to pay. Big-time.
Issabella Bright’s daily panic attacks aren’t entirely due to her decision to forgo a flashy firm and go out on her own, but that’s a large part of it. She never thought she’d resort to ambulance chasing, until the story about a SWAT raid gone wrong proves too intriguing to ignore—it’s the perfect chance to prove she made the right decision.
But Issabella’s not the only one after the job.
Darren’s connections are enough to get past the cops stonewalling them both at the hospital, but only a judge’s order makes Issabella even consider teaming up with the disheveled attorney and his weird—and weirdly effective—methods. But as the case deepens and it becomes clear the Detroit PD is concealing a much bigger conspiracy, Darren and his methods may be all that keep her alive.
Top Ten List – things to make readers want to pick up Motor City Shakedown
1. Detroit: where the graffiti mural is the most valuable part of the building you’re
driving past on your way to somewhere else!
2. Inside a shoddy little west side tavern, there is a herd of over a hundred unicorns
being held captive by the chain smoking proprietor.
3. One of our heroes practices law out of the back booth of that tavern.
4. There’s a killer-for-hire who likes painting homeless people, taking long strolls
through the city at night, and enjoys the roominess of living in an abandoned
project. And yes, he’s single, ladies…
5. A clay garden gnome is used as a weapon.
6. He is also used as a burglary tool but we never learn if he’s resentful about the
whole affair.
7. Two of the characters in the book have some pretty great sex in between some
pretty amusing arguments.
8. That a human tooth arrives in the mail is only a surprise for one of our heroes.
9. Someone experiences a vivid daydream about the cocktail conversations of people
who design crematorium ovens.
10. The ‘Yooper’ Dome is the world’s largest wooden dome. Did you know that
already? You would have if you’d read the book.
About Jonathan Watkins:
Jonathan Watkins lives and works in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Art and Children’s Literature from Eastern Michigan University and his Juris Doctorate from Thomas M. Cooley Law School. A life-long fan of detective fiction, Jonathan is the author of the Bright and Fletcher mystery series. He lives in Ann Arbor with his wife, who is too good for him. They are blessed with two kind-hearted sons.