From the first page I quickly became invested in the fates of the characters, found the plot riveting, and was delighted to see the writer had researched the details that supports his tale. For example, I’ve done a considerable amount of shooting and I’ve done a lot of reading about wound trauma from gunshot wounds, and Nunes is spot on. Makes me suspicious of his past.—John Silveira-Danielle Kidnapped
Praise for Matthew Nunes’ first novel in the series LAST CALL
“With intriguing characters set amidst the backdrop of an old-money summer in Newport, Last Call is like the drinks (and customers) Paul serves: classic, with a twist.”—Connie D., BFA, MBA, MLS (Master of Liberal Studies,) Asst Prof Humanities, Retired
“…Paul Costa is flawed and vulnerable — but he’s also dangerous…. The novel is peopled with unlikely heroes who help Costa along his way, and malevolent villains who have raped, murdered, and plundered their ways to power.
Nunes’ story is a refreshing throwback to the old detective stories with flawed protagonists and vulnerable women. It ran itself like a film noir, in my head, as I read it. accompanied by interior monologues from the main character. If they had made his novel into a movie in the 1940s, Humphrey Bogart would have been Paul Costa.—John Silviera, past senior editor of Backwoods Home Magazine and the author of Danielle Kidnapped and The Devil You Know
In Matthew Nunes’ second novel, On the Rocks, Paul has settled back into a routine life after the events of Last Call.
His daughter is away at summer camp, and he is dealing with an ambivalent new head of Human Resources at the Hotel where he works at the bar.
As if the threat to his livelihood isn’t enough, a phone call from his lifelong friend, Dennis Pereira arrives, along with a visit from a brilliant and beautiful attorney. The Mayflower descendant he’s accused of murdering, and the power structure of an entire state is working against him, when he takes on his friend’s need to clear his name.
The people he encounters and the dangers they wind up facing make it an uphill struggle that Paul simply cannot lose. “Friend” isn’t a word that Paul uses lightly, and giving up on one simply isn’t in his nature
