J. D. Solomon
J.D. Solomon is a graduate of Wesleyan University. He holds a Master’s degree in journalism from Boston University and a Master’s degree in marketing from Fordham University. He has served as an adjunct professor of business communications at the Graduate School of Management at Rutgers University. With nearly twenty years of diverse experience in marketing and business communication, as well as a personal background in entrepreneurism, J.D. Solomon offers specialized marketing expertise to start-up and growing businesses. Most recently, Mr. Solomon is the author of “The Tinen Killings” (BookSurge 2008), a novel about one of his wife's ancestors, an Irish immigrant who served as a Union officer in the Civil War. He is also the co-author of “Overcoming Macular Degeneration: A Guide to Seeing Beyond the Clouds” (Avon, 2000). |
The Tinen Killings: A Novel of Civil War Veterans
Synopsis: April, 1898 — As America steamrolls toward war with Spain, Major Patrick Sherman Tinen, an aging Union veteran of the Civil War and a hero at Gettysburg, is sleepwalking through old age at the mammoth National Soldiers’ Home in Elizabeth City, Virginia. But then Tinen’s son, a failed Klondike prospector, is murdered after a clumsy attempt to blackmail one of Philadelphia’s most powerful financiers. Conducting the investigation is the popular and politically ambitious county sheriff, Jed Roberts. Although Roberts is the son of a brave Confederate officer killed in Pickett’s Charge, the sheriff has no interest in the past. His focus is on the unlimited future offered by the new century, and he is already planning a run for Congress in the keystone year of 1900. First, though, he must solve this horrendous crime; if he fails, his promising political future will never get off the ground. Meanwhile, the powerful financier behind the murder has troubles of his own. Decades of financial double-dealing are finally catching up to him; creditors are closing in and his respectable name is in jeopardy. Out of options, he decides to turn one last time to a dark business he learned from his grandfather years ago—the buying and selling of human beings. Sheriff Roberts enlists Tinen’s help in tracing the crime to Philadelphia, where he gets unexpected assistance from the major’s estranged daughter. There they will come to terms with the ruthless financier, who has ordered his allies to stop the investigation at all costs.
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