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Ballast Point Breakdown: A Rolly Waters Mystery
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Product Description 2021 San Diego Book Awards winner!Trained dolphins drown a Navy diver. An animal-rights activist commits public suicide. Can guitar-playing detective Rolly Waters unearth one family's secrets before others die?On a cool winter evening, a speedboat hurtles across San Diego Bay and crashes into the Admiral's Club where a farewell party for the Navy's top-secret Dolphin Divers program is underway. As guests flee the ensuing fire, a woman named Janis Withers crawls from the inferno and screams her last words - Arion has returned!Guitar-playing private detective Rolly Waters finds himself pulled into the case when he connects Janis to a pair of dog tags left behind by Butch Fleetwood, a member of the Dolphin Divers who disappeared during a training exercise twenty years earlier.While fending off the FBI and local police, Rolly uncovers tantalizing connections between Fleetwood, a crusading journalist, a celebrity artist, a punk rock singer, a radical animal-rights organization, and the dead woman's own dysfunctional family. As he races against the authorities to uncover Arion's true identity, Rolly's investigation begins to reverberate with his own painful history. His search for the truth leads to a ruined casino on a deserted Mexican island where shocking secrets are unleashed in a ruthless showdown between tormented and tormentors. Review Entertaining and told with panache, Ballast Point Breakdown is a gripping mystery that forwards clues and prompts laughter. A pitch perfect murder mystery featuring an eccentric detective.Foreword ReviewsMystery fans will quickly warm to the affable Rolly, a genuine man who, though scarred by events of his past, has embraced the present to live one day at a time. This standalone installment will satisfy both newcomers and series fans with a fascinating mystery and colorful cast.BooklifeA high-speed mystery that picks the reader up and never lets downSan Francisco Book ReviewA crisp, fast-paced fourth in series P.I. mystery with contemporary tones readers won't be able to put down. Highly recommendedChanticleer ReviewsFayman maintains a nice light touch throughout. Carl Hiaasen fans will be pleased.Publisher's Weekly From the Inside Flap "Nobody lives forever. Or do they? Hop on board. Fasten your seat-belts and say your prayers. Ballast Point Breakdown opens with the wind tearing at your face as you bounce across San Diego Bay in the moonlite, hurtling toward a fiery collision of the past and the present. Guitar playing Private Eye Rolly Waters finds that the truth has a way of floating to the surface and that other things are perhaps best forgotten."- G.M. Ford, author of the Leo Waterman crime series"After a woman from his rock 'n' roll past orchestrates a remarkably rococo ending for herself, Rolly Waters is pulled into an investigation that uncovers a secret military program, an astonishing web of lies, and a pod of well-trained dolphins. Ballast Point Breakdown is a terrific read, featuring a cast of wise-cracking characters navigating some very dark waters. This is Fayman firing on all cylinders."- Bill Fitzhugh, author of Human Resources and Pest Control"Private Eye Roland Waters investigates with the cool, laconic style of the blues guitarist he is. Fayman delivers a twisted tale that starts with a bang and unfurls like a breaker in the San Diego surf."- Matt Goldman NYT Bestselling Author and Shamus Award Nominee"As a San Diego author and some-time musician, BALLAST POINT BREAKDOWN spoke to me on so many levels -- the unique San Diego settings, the dolphins (!!) and of course, the musician jokes (How many guitarists DOES it take to screw in a lightbulb, anyway?). But you don't have to be a San Diego musician to enjoy this twisty mystery -- just someone who enjoys a truly original story and a protagonist unlike any other in crime fiction."- Lisa Brackmann, author of ROCK PAPER TIGER and BLACK SWAN RISING."Dolphins, a dead environmental activi
