Friends of the Devil: A Jerry Snyder Novel
About this ebook
The investigation starts on unsure footing, and Jerry’s deal with Arlen goes from bad to worse when, at a funeral held on a private Caribbean island where the uber-wealthy have met to pay respects to one of their own, bodies begin to wash up at Jerry's feet like fish on a red tide.
In this luxurious tropical paradise, murder, blackmail, and deceit are the name of the game, and secrets are as abundant as sins. Before Jerry can determine who is trying to kill the funeral attendees, he'll not only have to risk his life, but he’ll also have to confront a past which threatens to claim his very soul.
About the author
Wayne Stinnett is an American novelist and Veteran of the United States Marine Corps. After serving he worked as a deckhand, commercial fisherman, Divemaster, taxi driver, construction manager, and commercial truck driver. He currently lives in the South Carolina Lowcountry on one of the sea islands, with his wife and youngest daughter. They have three other children, four grandchildren, three dogs and a whole flock of parakeets. He's the founder of the Marine Corps League detachment in Greenville, South Carolina, where he met his wife, and rides with the Patriot Guard Riders. He grew up in Melbourne, Florida and has also lived in the fabulous Florida Keys, Andros Island in the Bahamas, Dominica in the Windward Islands, and Cozumel, Mexico.
Wayne began writing in 1988, penning three short stories before setting it aside to deal with life as a new father. He took it up again at the urging of his third wife and youngest daughter, who love to listen to his sea stories. Those original short stories formed the basis of his first novel, Fallen Palm. After a year of working on it, he published it in October 2013. Since then, he's written more novels and now this prequel in the Jesse McDermitt Caribbean Adventure Series and the spinoff Charity Styles Caribbean Thriller Series. These days, he can usually be found in his office above Lady's Island Marina, where he also keeps his boat, working on the next book.
I am the author of the Florida-based Marsen Mysteries, the Chicago-based Detective Shannon Rourke Series, and the co-author of the Caribbean Mystery Series with my friend, Wayne Stinnett.
As a kid I dreamed of a Chris-Craft Constellation 57-footer on Lake Michigan. I imagined myself cruising from the Upper Peninsula, down the coast of Minnesota, then around to Grand Haven, righting wrongs, and sticking up for the little guy.
While I haven’t been the Travis McGee of The Great Lakes (yet), I have been the editor of a tiny college sports mag, a warehouse grunt, a paper pusher, a TV news nobody, an unrepentant party hound, and a backpack video journalist who chronicled everything from the estate sale of a Ponzi scheme conman to a lawyer moonlighting as a pro wrestler. I also did my bit as a pesky freelance investigative reporter, finding a person or two who didn’t want to be found.
I aspire to be the patron saint of underdogs, misfits, troublemakers, wanderers and anyone with a strong sense of comedic timing. As such, those are the characters I write, and the stories I tell.
