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Unintended ConsequencesLong Wake Publishing
Cover of Unintended Consequences by Brendan P. Kelley

Book One · A Matt Burke Adventure

Unintended Consequences

by Brendan P. Kelley

Matt Burke is a veteran Baltimore police sergeant who believes experience has taught him how consequences work. Then one split-second decision on a city street is caught on video, and the story belongs to everyone except Matt.

As officials, reporters, old friends and people with private agendas close in, Matt has to decide what can still be protected-and whether the instincts that made him a good cop are about to cost him the life he knows. The Chesapeake and Perissa, his sailboat, offer refuge. They do not offer escape.

If you like Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone novels, meet Matt Burke: a wounded Baltimore cop, dry humor, old loyalties, and the beginning of a long-running crime series built for readers who miss this kind of story.

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Meet Matt, explore the people and places around him, or decide whether this is your kind of crime story.

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