[Titus South Florida 01] • TSoFl01 - Miami Burn

“An exciting new voice in hard-boiled detective noir thrillers from newcomer John D. Patten.”

Titus came to Miami to kill a man. Plain and simple. Fresh off a prison stint for a crime he didn't commit and out for blood.

But when a wealthy socialite begs Titus to track down her missing daughter, he dives head first into a seedy Miami underworld of lowlife thugs, celebrity wannabes, and women as beautiful as they are deadly. Titus soon finds himself up against an organized crime boss, a crooked politician, and a hard-nosed Miami detective. Nobody, it seems, wants the girl found, but Titus doesn’t scare easy. Armed with two fists and razor-sharp wit, Titus unravels a mystery deeper, darker, and more twisted than a simple missing girl.

“John Patten is this generation’s John D. MacDonald. And Titus is the new Travis McGee!”

“Don’t miss this debut detective thriller!”

Miami Burn is the first book in the wildly popular Titus South Florida Mystery Thriller Series.

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Review

*"...*a non-stop tour-de-force that could easily be the start of a great new series from a writer with a distinct voice and a natural talent for story telling." - Literary Rebel

"Folks who want Spenser to be more hardboiled or fans of Lee Child will enjoy this one." - Sons of Spade

"Patten is a worthy incarnation of MacDonald, both on the action front and on the philosophical front, but with enough twists to set him apart. Impossible to put down." - Amazon reader

About the Author

John D. Patten occasionally skipped class in school because he was glued to a Spenser mystery by Robert B. Parker. He would be late for jobs because he got caught up in a Travis McGee thriller by John D. MacDonald. He memorized hard-boiled Philip Marlowe lines from detective stories by Raymond Chandler. Now, after all these years, he’s finally figured out maybe he should be writing hard-boiled thriller novels of his own.