2024 Best Indie Book Award Winner (Cozy Mystery)
2024 Sovas Outstanding Audiobook Narration (Mystery)

In the heart of Chicago, where shadows conceal secrets and organized crime reigns, one retiree embarks on an extraordinary journey.

David Blazen spent 50 years comfortable in his work routine but now is retired and desperately searching for purpose in his life.

He ultimately finds it in the most unlikely of ways: by becoming a self-proclaimed detective.

Travel through a labyrinth of adventure in this award-winning novel, where suspense lurks around every corner and laugh-out-loud moments break through the tension. Follow along as David's search for truth and justice gets him caught in a web of contentious cases, all within his first week on the job.

The most puzzling? A murder he witnessed that police are calling a suicide.

Will his investigation help identify the killer? It's up to this amateur sleuth to solve that mystery, prevent a budding turf war between Chicago's two dirtiest crime lords, keep a corrupt candidate out of the mayor's office, and bring peace to a city rattled by crime and violence.

The problem is, to succeed, he must become a criminal himself.

All net proceeds from this book will be donated to non-profit organizations benefitting senior veterans.

"We're all searching for purpose and fulfillment in our lives, and this crime fiction adventure is both heartwarming and inspiring, An action-packed and surprisingly poignant yarn about a man's search for himself as he enters his golden years." - Kirkus Reviews

More Awards

2024 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist

2024 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist: General Fiction over 100k words

2023 BookFest AwardsWinner: 1st Place in Cozy Detective and 2nd Place in Amateur Sleuth

2023 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition: Notable 100 Books

About the Author

David Marks used creativity and imagination to thrive in the business world until he retired at seventy. Retirement was traumatic because while he loved working, he hated not working even more. To pass the time, he began to tap notes into his iPhone about a fictional character facing the same challenges. And just like that, Boomsters was born.

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