Welcome to Cooper

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In this explosive thriller of bad choices and dark crimes, Detective Levine knew his transfer was a punishment but he had no idea just how bad it would get.

Cooper, Nebraska, is forgettable and forgotten, a town youd only stumble into if youd taken a seriously wrong turn. Like Detective Thomas Levines career has. But when a young woman is found lying dead in the snow, choked to death, her eyes gouged out, the disgraced detective is Coopers only hope for restoring peace and justice.

For Levine, still grieving and guilt-ridden over the death of his girlfriend, his so-called transfer from the big city to this grubby backwater has always felt like a punishment. And when his irascible new partner shoots their prime suspect using Levines gun, all hope of redemption is shattered. With the case in chaos, and both blackmail and a violent drug cartel to contend with, he finds himself in a world of trouble.

It gets worse. The real killer is still out there, and hes got plans for Detective Levine. And Cooper may just be the perfect place to get away with murder.

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With Welcome to Cooper, Tariq Ashkanani announces himself onto the crime fiction stage with a dark thriller set in the cankered heart of modern small town America. As Detective Thomas Levine navigates murder, corruption, and his own dark past, the plot lays bare the hidden world of violence and greed overtaking the American dream. A taut, uncompromising, and starkly visceral ride. Vaseem Khan, author of the Baby Ganesh Detective Agency series A tense, noirish, pacy thriller where nothing is as it seems right up until the chilling conclusion. An exciting new voice in crime fiction. John Marrs, bestselling author of The Good Samaritan Eerie, creepy, more noir than the concept of darkness. David Quantick, author of Night Train Mindblowingly good. Welcome to Cooper gets all the stars. Leye Adenle, bestselling author of Easy Motion Tourist A gripping crime novel with a Western twang and a big punch. William Ryan, author of The Constant Soldier and A House of Ghosts

Author Bio

Tariq Ashkanani is a solicitor based in Edinburgh, where he also runs WriteGear, a Kickstarter company that sells high-quality notebooks for writers, and WriteGears podcast Page One. He had no formal writing training or consultation prior to writing Welcome to Cooper. He is currently working on a follow-up thriller.