Country Radio Consultant Mike O’Malley’s first novel, LAST BUT NOT FLEECED, a funny, paranormal mystery set in Atlantic City, NJ in 1972, releases Friday, March 3, on Amazon. It is the first in a series.
Stan, a full-time psychic and part-time amateur sleuth, knows firsthand that the Boardwalk is anything but boring. How could it be when tacky tourists, looney locals, and the spirits of the dearly departed are as plentiful as shells on the beach?
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Stan reluctantly agrees to get involved, as does his pulp-detective-loving girlfriend Mo. Mo’s as quick to pick up on a hot lead as she is to deliver hard-boiled parody lingo.
Also on the case is Stan’s spirit-helper—the ghost of the wildly popular 1960s DJ Fabulous Frankie, who only speaks in rhymes and delivers his clues as riddles, just as he did on his old radio game Fabulous Frankie’s Hanky Pankies.
But when the case takes a dangerous and personal turn, Stan calls on his psychically gifted friends to help before everything he holds dear goes out with the tide.
The hilarious read takes readers through Atlantic City’s dive bars and swanky night clubs, pizza joints and fancy restaurants, and down the Boardwalk and up back alleys.
“I’ve always loved over-the-top humor, and there’s plenty of it in LAST BUT NOT FLEECED, Mike said. “It’s a fun romp at the Jersey Shore in a time before cellphones, personal computers, and the internet. And like Mo said, the story has ‘more twists than a Chubby Checker concert.’ ”
The print and ebook will release on Amazon March 3, 2023, the 166th anniversary of Atlantic City’s incorporation. There is a discount for purchases on March 3-5, 2023.
Mike’s radio career spans forty-plus years on both sides of the microphone. A former DJ and radio programmer in Jacksonville, Baltimore, Washington, DC and New York City, Mike co-founded what became one of the largest country-format radio consultancies in North America.
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