Today’s Best Indie Books of 2012 SEMIFINALIST is Ring of Fire by Bill Cokas. It is a quirky suspense full of wry social satire, combining offbeat characters, a contemporary twisted plot and a setting that’s equal parts academia and Aegean Sea.
A Brief Synopsis of Ring of Fire:
Seeking refuge from a corporate scandal, Wally Gibbs trades his corner office in Chicago for a tweed jacket with elbow patches in a quaint college town. He soon realizes he wasn’t meant to teach marketing; he was meant to reinvent it.
As Wally ensnares his unsuspecting students in the beta test, Project Argus catches the attention of eight-fingered frustrated campus policeman Nick Pappas. Sensing a connection to an unsolved student death, Nick becomes obsessed with exposing the scheme, even “deputizing” student cartoonist Zak Dawson to do the digging he can’t. The pair follows Wally to a tiny Greek island, where he acquires a rare exotic gem that he smuggles back home and turns over to a local jeweler. Within a few days, the hottest-selling graduation ring in the school’s history is quietly collecting data–and claiming lives.
About the Author:
Some of Bill’s earliest and fondest memories involve travel–more specifically, escaping into fiction. A childhood book club subscription yielded stacks of timeless, memorable titles that he has since shared with his own children. Bill graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a journalism degree and has spent more than two decades writing award-winning ads and commercials, first in Chicago, and now back in North Carolina, where he also teaches at his alma mater. This is his first novel.
What People Are Saying About Ring of Fire:
“If you like Janet Evanovich, Marshall Karp, Jack Getz and Carl Hiaasen, you have to pick up Bill Cokas. His novels are high on the entertainment scale and saturated with high and low humor. This is laugh out loud stuff, folks.” –R. Rohn
“A crime novel with a humorous angle, Ring of Fire is not your everyday thriller which is why I enjoyed it so much…” –Rita
“Ring of Fire, with its blend of humor, suspense and relationships provides a satisfying page-turner, even for this female reader who’s typically absorbed in a story of relationships from a woman’s perspective. Kudos to Bill Cokas!” –Connie Rosser Riddle
Snag your copy of Ring of Fire today.
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