A Time For Us (Michael Kaplan Mysteries)
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Blue Hawaii, a Las Vegas hotel and casino, is plagued with turmoil caused by internal politics and a power struggle between the Corporate and Old School factions.
A psychotic serial killer is running rampant, murdering and hideously disfiguring employees and former employees of Blue Hawaii. When Michael investigates the crimes for the Las Vegas Times, he discovers his wife, Myra, may be the killer’s next victim.
Be sure you have ample free time when you start reading A TIME FOR US, for you won’t want to put the book down until the tumultuous ending.
ABOUT THE MICHAEL KAPLAN MYSTERIES …
The Michael Kaplan Mysteries are a new generation of novels. They’re murder mysteries with the tempo of fast-paced R-rated movie thrillers, filled with gorgeous wanton women, sleazy, amoral villains, rapid-fire action, multiple killings, explicit sexual encounters, and extremely graphic violence. As with today’s motion pictures, the Michael Kaplan Mysteries are intensely erotic and mayhem-filled.
In the Michael Kaplan Mysteries, David W. Cowles, a long-time resident of Las Vegas, Nevada, captures the essence and flavor of the exciting “Entertainment Capital of the World” and its surroundings—the glitz, glamour, and grit as seen through the eyes of tourists and gamblers; an insider’s view of the casino industry; and the ordinary hometown known to locals.
The Michael Kaplan Mysteries provide readers with an accurate insight into the fascinating day-to-day operation of Las Vegas casinos. Readers familiar with Las Vegas will instantly recognize the famous hotels, casinos, and restaurants upon which fictional counterparts are modeled.
From the prologues through the teasing, I-want-more epilogues, the Michael Kaplan Mysteries abound with strange but interesting three-dimensional characters; demented, despotic, obsessed villains; exciting, romantic locales; constant plot twists and turns; clues, false clues, red herrings, surprises, and gotchas; and an abundance of subtle humor, wordplay, sexual repartee, and erotic situations.
Seldom are things as they seem in the intriguing, fast-moving Kaplan mysteries. The good guys often turn out to be the bad guys—and vice versa.
Michael Kaplan is in his early thirties. He’s tall, dark, and handsome; intelligent, educated, and urbane. A woman-charmer, not a womanizer. Masculine, not macho. But Michael has major character flaws that make him fallible, culpable, and a thoroughly different type of mystery hero.
He’s completely clueless (and therefore helpless) when dealing with the seductive wiles of the beautiful, lustful, sexually predatory women he encounters, until it’s too late for him to avoid entanglement. His naiveté and compete lack of judgment when dealing with the opposite sex keep him in constant trouble.
Although Michael is a law school graduate who passed the California bar exam on the first try, he’s never practiced in the profession. His legal training entitles him to quote the law. His lack of experience causes him to sometimes misquote it, and he frequently proves the adage that “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.”
Kaplan isn’t particularly ambitious—in fact, he’s rather lazy. He works beneath his education and abilities as a restaurant critic for the Las Vegas Times. The newspaper’s managing editor continuously prods and goads Michael into taking on additional responsibilities—which he reluctantly accepts, with an attitude falling somewhere between stubbornness, obstinacy, and recalcitrance—and with good reason. Michael has an uncanny ability to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. When bodies are found, convincing evidence usually points toward him.
Blue Hawaii, a Las Vegas hotel and casino, is plagued with turmoil caused by internal politics and a power struggle between the Corporate and Old School factions.
A psychotic serial killer is running rampant, murdering and hideously disfiguring employees and former employees of Blue Hawaii. When Michael investigates the crimes for the Las Vegas Times, he discovers his wife, Myra, may be the killer’s next victim.
Be sure you have ample free time when you start reading A TIME FOR US, for you won’t want to put the book down until the tumultuous ending.
ABOUT THE MICHAEL KAPLAN MYSTERIES …
The Michael Kaplan Mysteries are a new generation of novels. They’re murder mysteries with the tempo of fast-paced R-rated movie thrillers, filled with gorgeous wanton women, sleazy, amoral villains, rapid-fire action, multiple killings, explicit sexual encounters, and extremely graphic violence. As with today’s motion pictures, the Michael Kaplan Mysteries are intensely erotic and mayhem-filled.
In the Michael Kaplan Mysteries, David W. Cowles, a long-time resident of Las Vegas, Nevada, captures the essence and flavor of the exciting “Entertainment Capital of the World” and its surroundings—the glitz, glamour, and grit as seen through the eyes of tourists and gamblers; an insider’s view of the casino industry; and the ordinary hometown known to locals.
The Michael Kaplan Mysteries provide readers with an accurate insight into the fascinating day-to-day operation of Las Vegas casinos. Readers familiar with Las Vegas will instantly recognize the famous hotels, casinos, and restaurants upon which fictional counterparts are modeled.
From the prologues through the teasing, I-want-more epilogues, the Michael Kaplan Mysteries abound with strange but interesting three-dimensional characters; demented, despotic, obsessed villains; exciting, romantic locales; constant plot twists and turns; clues, false clues, red herrings, surprises, and gotchas; and an abundance of subtle humor, wordplay, sexual repartee, and erotic situations.
Seldom are things as they seem in the intriguing, fast-moving Kaplan mysteries. The good guys often turn out to be the bad guys—and vice versa.
Michael Kaplan is in his early thirties. He’s tall, dark, and handsome; intelligent, educated, and urbane. A woman-charmer, not a womanizer. Masculine, not macho. But Michael has major character flaws that make him fallible, culpable, and a thoroughly different type of mystery hero.
He’s completely clueless (and therefore helpless) when dealing with the seductive wiles of the beautiful, lustful, sexually predatory women he encounters, until it’s too late for him to avoid entanglement. His naiveté and compete lack of judgment when dealing with the opposite sex keep him in constant trouble.
Although Michael is a law school graduate who passed the California bar exam on the first try, he’s never practiced in the profession. His legal training entitles him to quote the law. His lack of experience causes him to sometimes misquote it, and he frequently proves the adage that “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.”
Kaplan isn’t particularly ambitious—in fact, he’s rather lazy. He works beneath his education and abilities as a restaurant critic for the Las Vegas Times. The newspaper’s managing editor continuously prods and goads Michael into taking on additional responsibilities—which he reluctantly accepts, with an attitude falling somewhere between stubbornness, obstinacy, and recalcitrance—and with good reason. Michael has an uncanny ability to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. When bodies are found, convincing evidence usually points toward him.
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