Johnny Chambliss aka Johnny Careless and Jeep Mullane were best friends while growing up. Even though one was born with a silver spoon, and how zero consequences for his actions and one was from a family of police officers who were nothing more than middle class, they found each other and a friendship that could not be broken. That is, until Johnny was found dead and the questions around his death and crime spree of stolen cars brings them back together while sorting out the facts. Thankfully, Jeep is the chief of police in this small town and has the truth and Johnny’s best interest at heart.
Johnny Careless is my first crime thriller of 2025. It is a fast-paced, gritty and can’t miss crime fiction read. Flowing perfectly between past and present, the back stories of the characters are layered in perfectly. I can’t remember the last time that I started a crime thriller where the title was the victim. The story takes the reader all over the small towns in North Shore Long Island, into the police precinct and politics that go along with the kind of generational money and privilege found there. Descriptions of locations and situations are immersive with details so specific that this could easily be made into a television series. I promise you will be cheering Jeep along and hoping for a possible book or television series.
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