Winner of the Anthony Award for Best First Novel
A dishonored ex-cop's desperate chance for redemption
While never convicted of his wife's murder, Rick was never exonerated either. Not by the police. Not by the media. Not even by himself. Eight years later, police suspicion and his own guilt remain over his responsibility in his wife's death.
When he meets Melody Malana, a beautiful yet secretive TV reporter, he sees a chance to love again. When she is arrested for murder and asks Rick for help, the former cop says no, but the rest of him says yes and he grasps at a chance for love and redemption.
Rick's attempt to help turns terribly wrong, and he, too, becomes a suspect in the murder and the target of a police manhunt. On the run, Rick encounters desperate people who will kill to keep their pasts buried.
Before Rick can save himself and bring down a murderer, he must confront the truth about his own past and untangle his feeling for a woman he can never fully trust.
Fans of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch will love Matt Coyle's Rick Cahill
While all of the novels in the Rick Cahill PI Crime Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:
Yesterday's Echo
Night Tremors
Dark Fissures
Blood Truth
Wrong Light
Lost Tomorrows
Blind Vigil
Industry Reviews
Coyle does a superb job of drawing the reader in and keeps a steady pace of action along with solid character development. This celebration of the crime noir novels of old with a modern sensibility in Rick Cahill as hero will strongly appeal to fans of classic hard-boiled PI novels. -- Library Journal (Starred Review)
Outstanding debut - Don't miss this one! Wow, thumbs up for Matt Coyle!...Coyle is going to give some of the mystery writers a run for their money. -- Fresh Fiction
... a flawlessly executed debut novel... Told in the first-person, Mr. Coyle's flawlessly executed debutnovel, Yesterday's Echo is crime noir at its best, teeming withmemorable characters and unexpected plot twists. The warts-and-all Rick Cahill is a breath of fresh air and one of themost exciting protagonists to hit the pages of a novel in a long time. A cool, compulsively readable crime story from beginning to end. -- New York Journal of Books
A sharp, compelling read, Coyle's Yesterday's Echo conjures images of Chandler's California, while reverberating with an energy and style all his own. Watch out, mystery fans, Matt Coyle has entered the scene! -- Stephen Jay Schwartz, Los Angeles Times best-selling author of Boulevard and Beat
Anyone who wishes, as I do, that Raymond Chandler had written more novels ought to read Matt Coyle's Yesterday's Echo, which zings with wit while it convinces us that police, politicos, and business folk can be as mean and corrupt as ever. -- Ken Kulken, award winning author of the Tom Hickey's California crime novels.
"Coyle's promising debut introduces ex-cop Rick Cahill, a tarnished knight who battles internal and external demons...Cahill turns out to be both tough and resourceful when forced to confront his past. Readers can hope his future will be brighter." Publishers Weekly
"Yesterday's Echo is plotted with a sure hand, and the prose flows fast and crisp like a mountain river. It will captivate you so that you don't want to put it down, and you don't want it to endat least not until the next installment is available." Suspense Magazine
"Readers looking for a smart new spin on the classic P.I. novel will find it in Matt Coyle's terrific debut, yesterday's Echo. Coyle turns the difficult trick of paying the proper respect to the traditions of the classic hardboiled novel while stamping it all with his own distinct, contemporary take. A great read." Gar Anthony Haywood , author of Assume Nothing
Praise for the Rick Cahill PI Crime Series "Coyle knows the secret: digging into a crime means digging into the past. Sometimes it's messy, sometimes it's dangerousalways it's entertaining." Michael Connelly, New York Times best-selling author
"Sharp, suspenseful, and poignant, Lost Tomorrows hits like a breaking wave and pulls readers into its relentless undertow. Matt Coyle is at the top of his game." Meg Gardiner, Edgar Award-winning author
"Following an Anthony Award-winning debut isn't easy, but Matt Coyle slammed a homer. Hard, tough, humane Night Tremors is outstanding!" Robert Crais, Anthony, Macavity, and Shamus Award-winning author
"Matt Coyle's Dark Fissures is a meticulously plotted detective novel with such fast and continuous action that neither the cars nor the gun barrels ever cool down."Thomas Perry, Edgar Award-winning author
"Readers will root for Rick Cahill, hard-boiled PI and one-man wrecking ball, as he searches for the truth about his police officer father in Blood Truth ." Hallie Ephron, New York Times best-selling author
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