Marco Manfre

The Bomb Shelter Confession Marco Manfre

A one-of-a-kind crime novel. Russell Butler, a sharp, methodical NYPD undercover detective, never hesitates to bend the rules and interpret reality as he perceives it in order to solve cases and bring felons to justice. In THE BOMB SHELTER CONFESSION, the first installment of the Detective Butler Mystery trilogy, he finds himself caught up in the hunt for the drug dealers who shot his partner to death. At the same time, he conducts an unofficial investigation into the brutal beating death of an old friend in his hometown in South Jersey. During the months that he spends digging into these cases, he makes an effort to finally come to terms with a painful memory and a gnawing sense of remorse that have haunted him for years. THE BOMB SHELTER CONFESSION is a lightning-paced crime novel that is, at the same time, a meticulously composed, highly literate police procedural that delves deeply into the motivations of characters and asks questions about truth, justice, and the nature of forgiveness.