Rigged

Jake Longly is a former major league pitcher, now living in Florida, owns a bar and working "part-time" for his father, who owns Longly Investigations. Jake's father is constantly trying to get Jake to work from me and the only success he has is when his girlfriend (who also is a PI) drags him along......more

Story started strong with what was to be a meeting between a couple who were sixth grade sweethearts. Then... Longly Investigations gets involved in a murder times two instead of a divorce of Emily who was half of this sixth grade romance with Pancake (Tommy Jeffers) who is a member of Longly. Lots......more

I would like to thank Netgalley and Oceanview Publishing for a review copy of Rigged, the fourth novel to feature Alabama bar owner and occasional, reluctant PI Jake Longly. Emily Patterson has filed for divorce and her lawyer has asked Longly Investigations to look at the financials, so her primary......more

When the book opens, we find Jake Longly, a retired baseball pitcher and bar/restaurant owner on trial over an incident which happened at his bar, Captain Rocky’s. Fortunately, his attorney, the same lawyer that helped Jake’s ex-wife take him to the cleaners when they divorced, gets him off. Jake’s......more

Following DEEP SIX, A-LIST and SUNSHINE STATE, this fourth Jake Longly installment finds Jake amusingly mulling that he’s “an ex-major league baseball stud, restaurateur, defender of frivolous lawsuits, lover of women, well, one in particular [Nicole Jemison], and for sure a world-class avoider of w......more