Lights Out Summer

<p>In mid-March 1977 ballistics link murders going back seven months to the same Charter Arms Bulldog .44. A psycho Son of Sam is on the loose. But Coleridge Taylor can't compete with the armies of reporters assigned by the city's tabloids--only rewrite what they get. Always looking for victims who need a voice he sees other killings are being ignored because of the police manhunt and the media circus. He goes after one the story of a young Black woman gunned down in her apartment building the same night Son of Sam struck elsewhere in Queens.</p><p>Coleridge's research puts him in the crosshairs of a hit man and entangled with a wealthy Park Avenue family at war with itself. Just as he's closing in on the killer and his scoop the July 13-14 blackout sends New York into a 24-hour orgy of looting and arson. Taylor and his PI girlfriend Samantha head out into the darkness where a steamy night of mob violence awaits them. Duty demands that they separate so Taylor is forced to track his quarry alone.</p><p>When the lights come back on how many dead will be added to the body count? Lacking Samantha's skill with a gun can Taylor stay alive until the lights come on?</p><p>Book 4 in the Coleridge Taylor Mystery series.</p>