The Concrete Pearl, Vincent Zandri
The Concrete Pearl, Vincent Zandri
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The Concrete Pearl

Author: Vincent Zandri

Narrator: Christine Williams

Unabridged: 7 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/04/2012


Synopsis

How does a headstrong girl like me learn to survive in a man’s construction racket? By taking your old man’s advice, even if it comes from six feet under.Thirty-eight-year-old Ava “Spike” Harrison can hold her own in the boys club that is the construction business. Her late father saw to it that she was as comfortable on a job site as she was behind a textbook. But the past few years have had her over a barrel—job site injuries and a string of bad luck, including the death of her husband, have hampered the venerable Harrison Construction Company. Taking a cheap job here and there has been her only option.Grasping at straws, though, comes at a price: an asbestos removal contractor she’s hired, Jimmy Farrell—a lifelong acquaintance who gladly accepted $10,000 from Spike as a “good faith” incentive—has gone AWOL. The three hundred students at Albany’s PS 20, the job site, are about to be exposed to deadly asbestos fibers.What starts out as a goose chase—from a cleared-out office to Jimmy’s impounded car—turns into an all-out search for the real story behind the man’s sudden disappearance. Trading in her work boots for gumshoes, Spike must tread a path paved with deception, greed, and even murder if she’s going to nail down the truth.Vincent Zandri, author of the popular Moonlight saga, spins intrigue and danger with a thrilling new series and a sharp, feisty heroine who has little left to lose.

About Vincent Zandri

Vincent Zandri is the international best-selling author of Godchild, The Remains, Moonlight Falls, Moonlight Rises, Scream Catcher, and Murder by Moonlight. He is also the author of the best-selling digital shorts Pathological and Moonlight Mafia. The New York Post called his novel The Innocent “[s]ensational…masterful…brilliant!” He has worked as a foreign correspondent and freelance photojournalist for RT, Globalspec, and IBTimes, among others. He lives in New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lou

Mystery, thriller is a tough genre to write in as a lot of ground has been covered by many authors before with murder, scams, and kidnapping. It seems only novels some with originality in style and elements of supernatural present or twists really get rated high as page-turners and grippers. In this......more

The fourth book on my Vincent Zandri crime spree is also his latest, "Concrete Pearl." Having read and reviewed the unholy trio that put him on the map (read my reviews of "The Remains," "The Innocent" and "Godchild"), I can safely say "Concrete Pearl" tops all of them. It's his best work to date. Th......more

Hey there and happy Monday to all. I wanted to start the week off with a bang and make some noise early in the week so I am going to post on not one but two of my collaborators. I have been fortunate to work with Vincent Zandri on “Down Low-Dead” ( available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, Sc......more

Goodreads review by Laurie

A thoroughly captivating thriller mystery, I was grabbed at the prologue and remained mesmerized by the unfolding story all the way to the harrowing climax. Ava Harrison, already operating her inherited, sinking construction company on a shoestring, steps into a nightmare scenario when she arrives a......more