First Chapter Review & Giveaway: Freedom Drop by Brian Silverman

 

Freedom Drop, the first book in the Len Buonfiglio Caribbean Mystery Series, is on tour with Partners in Crime Tours. 

BLURB:  Len Buonfiglio is a former New York bar owner and family man. He has the perfect life until he yearns for more—for something he knows will destroy everything he had, but something he can’t resist. He makes his choice and that, along with a traumatic event, shatters his world. His life and what he had now broken, his only choice is to leave the city and his family. His flight takes him to the remote Caribbean island of St. Pierre where he opens a sports bar that he runs with his friend and partner, a young local islander named Tubby Levett.

In Freedom Drop, a genial tour guide, Rawle “Big Tree” Johns is a suspect in an American woman’s fall from a cliff and held in custody. John’s mother enlists Buonfiglio to help free her son and to prove that he had nothing to do with the woman’s death. Conflicted by the need to spend time with his sixteen-year-old daughter who he hasn’t seen in two years, Mr. Len as he’s known on the island, reluctantly agrees to help.

Buonfiglio’s search for the truth reveals that there are other, much more powerful forces involved in the woman’s death that threaten both his life and his family. In the course of his investigation, he confronts a high-ranking island politician, the local superintendent of police, the dead girl’s mother, and, ultimately, a shady yet powerful outsider investor. Was the girl’s death an accident or did Johns cause that accident? Or was she murdered? The lack of clarity—the mystery of what really happened to the girl—he realizes, reflects the enigma that is St. Pierre. It’s a riddle that, despite living on the island for several years, he still cannot solve.

COVER: What a beautiful cover! Love the colors, the texture, and the deep blue sky with the moon adding a hint of mystery. 

FIRST CHAPTER: Len and his best friend on the island, Tubby, are driving to the airport. Numerous people descend the ladder as they make their way across the landing strip, but Len's eyes are on only one person.

KEEP READING: After a suspenseful and intense prologue that takes place in the past and sometime in the present, the reader finds Len and Tubby headed down the dangerous roads of St. Pierre to the airport. Silverman provides just the right amount of description to keep the reader engaged, without bogging them down with what they don't need to know yet. The friendly banter between Len and Tubby helps to lighten the emotions of the trip. The reader must wonder at this point how many, if any, of these other new arrivals to the island will play a bigger role, but the one Len has been waiting for will certainly be part of the story. I'm eager to see what happens next!

• ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DTJ8TSMW
• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Down & Out Books
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 7, 2025
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• File size ‏ : ‎ 2.0 MB
• Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
• Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
• Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled 
• X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
• Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled 
• Print length ‏ : ‎ 301 pages 
• Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled 

Read an excerpt from FREEDOM DROP:  

I received a copy of this book from the author. This First Chapter Review contains my honest opinions, which I have not been compensated for in any way.

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