Aubrey Nye Hamilton Reviews: Remi Bone by William L. Myers, Jr.

William L. Myers, Jr. is a Philadelphia lawyer with 30 years of trial experience in state and federal courts. He still actively practices law while writing the Philadelphia Legal series. He branches out into noir territory with his latest book Remi Bone, to be released by Oceanview in September.

Remington Bohne became Remi Bone in elementary school and the name followed him into his adulthood. After tours in the Gulf War and a brush with the law, Bone settled into life with the love of his life, working as a highly skilled mechanic on foreign-made automobiles. When Bea died he was devastated but he vowed he would finish raising Bea’s daughter Kayla. He has been saving for Kayla’s college expenses in the four years since, doing without, working overtime, while Kayla focused on making good grades and acing the college entrance exams.

A visit with a cardiologist throws a huge wrench into Bone’s plans. His heart is failing and he is unlikely to survive to see Kayla through college. He is reeling from that news, then Kayla is admitted to the university of her dreams. He needs to expedite his savings program so when his shady boss offers him $25,000 to rub out a gang member pushing heroin to high school students, he agrees to do it. He isn’t happy but he does it. Once the job is done, other contract killings follow, each with a higher price tag than the one before. Bone’s determination to provide for Kayla balanced against his consciousness of wrongdoing keeps him on edge while gritting his teeth and carrying out the murders.

A fast-moving, tightly woven story about how sometimes none of the choices we have are good, and the only way forward is to choose the one with the least awful consequences. Bone is a deeply principled man and far more intelligent than the sleazoids who picked him to be their hired shooter understand. His scenes with Kayla, from whom he has hidden his illness, are among the best parts of the book. The ending is as powerful as it is unexpected. Recommended.

  

·         Publisher: ‎Oceanview Publishing (September 19, 2023)

·         Language: ‎English

·         Hardcover: ‎320 pages

·         ISBN-10: ‎160809572X

·         ISBN-13: ‎978-1608095728 

 

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Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who works on Federal It projects by day and reads mysteries at night.