Weepers
The murder of an undercover cop in a New York City Housing Project in 1957 has unexpected ties to the unsolved disappearance of a young father walking home in those same Projects with his son, Angelo, on Christmas Eve 1951. The only witness to the cop killing is Angelo, now 13, on his way to set fire to a grocery store at 2:00 a.m. The killers saw him. These events forge a union between a priest, a Mafia boss, a police detective, and Angelo, a gang member. In Weepers, we see that if you drop a rock into the East River, the ripples will go all the way to Italy. In the end, Weepers shows us that the courage of the underdog—despite fear and moral ambiguity—will conquer intimidation.
Awards for Weepers
Firebird Grand Prize Best Book Award (2022)
Best Mystery Novel for 2017, the John E Weaver Excellent Reads Award by Earthshine.
Award Winner – Best Novel of 2016 by the Public Safety Writers Association (PSWA).
Award – Best Book Award by Midwest Independent Publishers Association (MIPA).
Award – Best Young Adult Novel for 2016 by Bookvana.
Award – Best Crossover (Mystery & Young Adult) Best Books Award for 2017
Purchase
Weepers and Nunzio’s Way by Nick Chiarkas are available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, University of Wisconsin Bookstore, Mystery to Me, other local independent bookstores, and from the publisher.
Nunzio’s Way
“In this city, you can have anything you want if you kill the right four people.” ~ Nunzio Sabino
In Weepers, Angelo and his gang defeated the notorious Satan’s Knights with some help from his beloved “uncle,” Nunzio Sabino. Now, in this standalone sequel to Weepers, it’s 1960, and Nunzio is still the most powerful organized crime boss in New York City, protecting what’s his with political schemes and ‘business’ deals.
The bodies begin stacking up against this backdrop of Mafia turf wars, local gang battles, and political power plays in the mayoral election. An unlikely assassin arrives fresh from Naples after killing a top member of the Camorra to avenge the murder of her family. She blends seamlessly into the neighborhood, and with the focus on the threat from Satan’s Knights, no one suspects that Angelo’s father and Nunzio are next on her hit list. Nunzio has lived his entire life by the mantra: Be a fox when there are traps and a lion when there are wolves. Will Nunzio be a lion in time?
Awards for Nunzio’s Way
Firebird Award Winner for Best Thriller, Best Crime Fiction, Best Suspense Fiction, and Best Cover Design (2022)
Reader’s Favorite Five-Star Review
Purchase
Weepers and Nunzio’s Way by Nick Chiarkas are available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, University of Wisconsin Bookstore, Mystery to Me, other local independent bookstores, and from the publisher.