Miami brings the sunshine but Griffin Knight brings the heat.
Hector Ruiz is dead and the facts just aren’t adding up. Officer Ruiz was a good friend and an even better man, one who would never take the coward’s way out. While a casual observer might believe that a suicide note, paired with a live appliance dropped into a bathtub and a numbing overdose of drugs, surely equals suicide, eagle-eyed Griffin Knight disagrees. “The police got it wrong. So did the FBI. But I know if anyone can find out the truth, it’s [Griffin].” But Miami isn’t Knight’s backyard and people here don’t play by his rules. Local gangs complicate matters as unchecked violence spreads across the area. Disinclined to look into a closed case, the local police are even less helpful than the FBI, so the Ruiz investigation has to take place with Knight’s usual stealth, hard work, and tenacity. Knight has an ally or two on his side, and he’ll need them if he wants to find out what really happened and clear his friend’s tarnished reputation. However, someone is working hard to keep the truth hidden and will go to great lengths to keep it that way. When pitted against an egotistical gang leader with everything to prove, law enforcement who are unwilling to budge, and a spate of heinous crimes that creep closer and closer with each day, Knight will have to work fast before he becomes a victim in this aggressive bid for control of the Miami neighborhood of Liberty City.
Miami brings the sunshine but Griffin Knight brings the heat in Miami Vengeance: A Griffin Knight Conspiracy Mystery. True to form, the story is lightning fast, the opening crime scene is cleverly laid out, and the adversaries are multi-dimensional and appropriately despicable. With all the best aspects of pithy humor, tenuous composure, sweeping insight, exciting gadgets, and some loyal friends that always back him up, Griffin Knight is a hero everyone will root for. Even better, this cutting-edge investigator has so many tricks and just enough humor that he comes together like a hip, yet relatable mash-up of Sherlock Holmes and Tony Stark. Hernandez has an immersive writing style that sheds the fluff and takes you right to the heart of the story, keeping audiences engaged until the last page. Light foreshadowing and reliable secondary characters lead inexorably toward a fulfilling conclusion, but the author kicks the door wide open for more thrills in the future. With plots and subplots that flow together seamlessly, Miami Vengeance is a succinct thriller that is easy to get into and difficult to put down.
