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“Deep Dive”
Chris Knopf
Permanent Press, $
At last, a writer sings the praises of the friendly neighborhood hardware store.
He may have neglected to comment on the heady ambrosial scent of cardboard and glue, remarkably consistent across Ace, True Value, what have you, but in “Deep Dive” Chris Knopf briefly rhapsodizes about a family-owned shop in Southampton “crammed with every imaginable item, useful for the building trades as well as the summer people who considered the experience of buying utilitarian goods a type of adventure.”
“Eminently helpful and patient,” the gathered sales clerks were “men and women who had seen it all and been asked every question there was to ask, and yet approached their duties with unflagging enthusiasm.” (How each of these small retail concerns can possibly support the employment of so many of them at once will have to be addressed some other time.)
It’s almost off topic, but it happens to reveal something about Mr. Knopf’s M.O. Never mind that Sam Acquillo, the man who spoke the words above in the course of his first-person narration, is a cabinetmaker in need of shop tools when he isn’t avenging misdeeds or doing in
Head Wounds
The Publisher Says: Sam Acquillo can hide in his windswept waterfront cottage all he wants, but the demons of his past are going to find him. Worse, they've teamed up with some pretty nasty demons of the present, including a very determined Chief of Police whose top detective has Sam caught in the crosshairs.
Part-time carpenter, full-time drinker and co-conspirator with an existential mutt named Eddie Van Halen, Sam tries to lead the simple life. But as always, fate intervenes, this time in the form of Robbie Milhouser, local builder and blundering bully who shares at least one thing with Sam -- an irresistible attraction to the beautiful Amanda Anselma.
Peel back the glitz and glory of the fabled Hamptons and you'll find a beautiful place filled with ugly secrets. This is Sam Acquillo's world. Moving effortlessly across the social divide with wry pal Jackie Swaitkowski and rich guy Burton Lewis, the ex-boxer, ex-corporate infighter seems doomed to straddle the thin red line between envy and love, hate and forgiveness, goodness and greed.
And sometimes life and death. Only this time, the life at stake is his own. .
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Chris Knopf author biography, plus links to books by Chris Knopf.
Chris Knopf
Chris Knopf's Sam Acquillo Hamptons Mystery series, including The Last Refuge, Two Time and Head Wounds, have received international critical acclaim. A copywriter by trade, Chris is a principal of Mintz & Hoke Communications Group. He lives with his wife Mary and dog Samuel Beckett in Avon, CT and Southampton, NY, where he sets sail on the sacred Little Peconic Bay.
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Chris Knopf is a published novelist, sailor, house designer, cabinet maker and music enthusiastic. He is also the author of the very famous Sam Acquillo Mystery Series a collection of very well written crime novels, including the titles: The Last Refuge, Two Time, Head Wounds (which won the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Mystery), Hard Stop, and Black Swan. His talent has been recognized with many creative awards along the years and he currently lives with his wife Mary Farrell in Connecticut and Southampton, New York.
The Sam Acquillo Mystery Series is one of the best crime fiction series out there on the last few years and that you will have the pleasure to read. An absorbing and easy to read mystery series that will captive you from the first pages and you won’t be able to put his books down. With a total of six books published and a seventh coming soon this year, the intriguing and intense adventures of Sam Acquillo have caught the attention of thousands of readers around th
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