Are you up for reading an exciting, and gripping mystery-suspense?
My title “The Shaman and The Mafia” is garnishing high praise from readers, book reviewers, and even editorial reviewers like the readers at Reader Views.Happy to share more…
“The Shaman and the Mafia” from the title alone is not a storyline I would usually pick, but I am glad I took the chance because it paid off. The events in the story felt real – thrillers on the international and personal level. Readers who enjoy romance (with all the good and the bad), hunting the bad guy(s) (strategy and suspense), and twist endings that make you think (not too hard) and find the good at the end among the forest of darkness should read “The Shaman and the Mafia!” ~Reader Views.
Marietta Collins, a former nun, becomes enmeshed in the tragedy of a brutal murder.
Marietta, now the head of a youth drug rehab center, is dedicated to ridding the community of the growing criminal element. The victim of the suspected mafia hit was her friend Joseph Gleason W, a drug informant.
During the investigation, she meets the victim’s brother, FBI Assistant Director Raymond Gleason. There’s an instant attraction between the two. He becomes her first lover and their romance blossoms into a deep love for each other.
Raymond gives FBI agent Jerry Young, who is also his best friend, the responsibility of investigating the murder and hunting down the mafia’s kingpin. Marietta and Jerry have a brief clandestine affair that they are both later sorry for. Jerry, haunted by guilt for his violent past, turns to his childhood mentor, a mysterious Cherokee shaman, to save him from the burning fires of lust and his desire for vengeance.
Also involved in the search for the murderer is Detective Riley, a tough, trash-talking female cop formerly with the NYPD, who discovers her new boss, Sgt. Sorrento is on the take from the mob.
While other minor characters help tell this gripping story, this is an action-packed mystery and love story that also examines the conflicted emotions of the characters as they try to make sense of their lives through the web of crime, darkness, and light.
“The Shaman and The Mafia have now been awarded a 5-star editorial book review by Reader’s Favorite Magazine!”
Give “The Shaman and The Mafia” a read today, as it is worth your reading time! The Kindle is now on sale for $1.99 from Amazon and read free with Kindle Unlimted. . .
“Upton’s “The Shaman and the Mafia” includes something for everyone packed in a comparatively few pages; the reader will expect to be surprised, process the myriad of emotions throughout the story, and won’t think twice about remembering Elizabeth Upton for years to come.
Complex characters add to the intensity and completeness of the storyline based on their backstory and how the past plays a role in the present. The reader will develop attachments to the characters that cause scenes to touch on each spectrum of emotions, sometimes simultaneously.” ~ Reader’s Favorite
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