Beyond The Bridge
A Dermot Sparhawk Novel
Published on 3. November 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-60809-449-3 (ISBN)
Description
Dermot Sparhawk, a former all-American football star at Boston College, returns in Beyond the Bridge, the prequel to Tom MacDonald's award-winning debut novel, The Charlestown Connection. In Beyond the Bridge, Sparhawk, a struggling alcoholic, agrees to help find the killer of an accused pedophile priest. When two more priests are slain, it becomes evident that it is the work of a sadistic serial killer who crucifies his prey after killing them. Sparhawk blazes an unconventional trail to the killer that puts him at odds with the very people he is trying to help and initiates a turf war with law enforcement. He gathers a cadre of unlikely allies, including a parish priest, a police lab criminalist, the district attorney, and a state police lieutenant who help to rebuff attempts to derail him from the case. Then, with the help of his Micmac Indian cousin and his paraplegic tenant and former Boston College teammate, Sparhawk bulldozes his way to the truth, while putting his own life at risk.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ipswich, MA
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60809-449-3 (9781608094493)
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After a long career in business, Tom MacDonald now works in the non-profit sector. He is also an adjunct professor of creative writing at Boston College. Tom's best-selling first crime novel, The Charlestown Connection, won the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Award, Best First Novel, and was a finalist for the American Librarian Association Book of the Year Award. Tom lives in the Boston area with his wife Maribeth.