Fatal Innocence

By David Berardelli

In the course of an investigation, Private Detective Adam Brooks encounters an incredibly beautiful woman whose mysterious past points to serious intrigue.

Richard Warden, CEO and owner of WarCo, Inc., the Orlando-based software empire, meets a beautiful green-eyed young redhead in one of his favorite bars and is immediately taken by her beauty and sophistication. While he actively pursues her, his only son and heir is murdered, his daughter’s boyfriend commits suicide, his wife leaves him, and his empire crumbles.
Richard has no idea why all these terrible things are happening to him. His only clue is the beautiful mystery-woman who coincidentally entered his life at the same time his troubles started. Has she been hired by one of his enemies or one of his competitors, specifically to ruin him?

Adam suspects another reason – maybe she’s a long-suffering victim from Richard’s checkered past, who has vowed revenge and is determined to destroy him. But whoever she is, and whatever she’s up to, it’s a race to find out the truth before the CEO of WarCo goes down in flames. Or ... maybe that’s the best thing that could happen to him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Penumbra Publishing
• Release date: Mar 31, 2011
• ISBN: 9781935563488

David Berardelli

David Berardelli was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up on his grandmother's farm in Gibsonia. Formerly a jazz musician, he studied music at Duquesne University for one year before being drafted into the U.S. Army. He was a member of the 80th Army Band at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia, and also performed in the Third Army Soldier Show at Fort McPherson in Atlanta, Georgia. He also served as a bugler at nearly two hundred military funerals between 1970 and 1971. He has been a caricaturist, nightclub musician, and data-processing associate. He presently lives on a thirty-acre horse ranch in southern Mississippi with wife Linda, their horses, and two very bright and spoiled Aussie dogs, Kylie and Wiffle. David is the author of many novels, among them, The Apprentice, Wagon Driver, Demon Chaser and The Funny Detective as well as Stepping Out of My Grave. He is presently at work on several other projects. His email address is [e-mail]. He also is listed in Facebook. His web sites are: www.writersownwords.com/daemons/ www.davesdemons.weebly.com