J.B. Turner's Miami Requiem is Book 1 in A Deborah Jones Thriller Series.
The murder of Senator O'Neill's only son (Joe) by a man named William Craig has Craig days from being put to death in the Raiford Jail.
William Craig is now an old man, but his case is being investigated by Deborah Jones, a rookie reporter in the "Features" department of the Miami Herald newspaper. What she learns puts her in grave danger and rehashes all of her very personal reasons for wanting a reprieve for William Craig.
Turns out the Senator had been carefully concealing the crimes of his son from the start with the help of a lifetime friend of his family who has financially built the Senator's career. Headed for re-election, he is overwhelmed with the underlying facts of the Herald's investigative reporter, and the execution date of William Craig can't come fast enough. The problem is the story is gaining ground and the young reporter is determined to see all the layers of corruption surrounding the Senator and the trial of the old Scottish war hero, having won the Victoria Cross, exposed along with the lurid and repeated horrors of the crimes Joe O'Neill committed.
Her boss and managing editor, widower Sam Goldberg, is thoroughly impressed with her work but has become very protective of her when he realizes the danger she's facing. He wants to reassign her, but she digs her heels in and insists this is her story.
Danger hits hard, but so does help from more than one unlikely source.
The story moves in twists and turns introducing new characters both good and bad and those who've been victimized, paid off, paid for, and every other means to silence them, but with the heroics of Deborah Jones, they're inspired to be forthright with one of those unlikely and surprising sources providing the much-needed proof to nail the evildoers.
It's a good story, set back in the post-9/11 era with the filth of politics and prejudice evident throughout.
(Some profanity.)
Father, I've said it a thousand times, only you know hearts and minds. Thank you for writers and authors and may each one know from whom their amazing talents come. Please keep inspiring them to tell the stories you have just for them to tell. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.