The Last of the Good Guys - Ernesto Patino, Author
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Chicken Verscruz
An Ernesto Patino Specialty
2 chicken breasts (small to medium size)
3 fresh Pasilla peppers (may substitute mild Anaheim peppers)
1-2 fresh Serrano or Jalapeno peppers
1 small or ½ large yellow onion
1 medium or ½ large tomato
1 heaping tablespoon of capers
½ teaspoon of oregano
2 cloves of garlic
1/3 cup (about 17) small, green Spanish olives
Cut Pasilla peppers and onions into long strips Cut tomato into small pieces. Mince finely cloves of garlic. Mince Serrano or Jalapeno peppers.
Cook chicken breasts in small amount of olive oil until done. Cut into small pieces. At the same time, sauté the Pasilla strips and onions in a medium sized pan. Add the minced garlic, oregano, pieces of chicken and olives. Mix thoroughly and allow ingredients to simmer on low heat for about 3 minutes. Then, add the finely minced Serrano peppers, pieces of tomatoes and capers. Simmer for another 2-3 minutes
The Last of the Good Guys – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat
‘Julie read the note and then the article. “I don’t understand,” she said from across her kitchen table. “What does this have to do with Ben’s suicide?” Alec looked at her. “I was hoping you might have an answer. Did Ben ever talk about these guys, any of them?” She shook her head. “They weren’t his close friends, that’s for sure. I vaguely remember a couple of the names, Rudy Johnson and Roy Harrison. But that was when Ben was still on the force.” “Stuart’s widow didn’t remember them at all. Didn’t even know if Stuart had maintained contact with any of them.” “So what next?” “Well, I’d like to talk to the others, the ones mentioned in the article. I know Roy Harrison died of lung cancer about eight years ago and both Conway and Johnson had resigned, which means I’ll first have to find them.” “You really think there could be a connection?” Alec shrugged. “I don’t know, but it’s worth checking out. In the meantime why don’t you go through Ben’s papers and stuff and see if you come up with anything that might show a tie-in.”
Alec Santana had been best man at his friend Ben Brody’s wedding. Now he sits with Ben’s widow Julie as they try to make sense of Ben’s apparent suicide. The only clue Julie is able to give to Alec is that Ben did start acting strange after receiving a letter that he refused to share with her. When Julie asked about the letter, he blew it off as a bill he forgot to pay. Yet less than two weeks later he commits suicide. Alec sees no reason for such a desperate act which makes him even more determined to get to the bottom of his friend’s fatal actions.
As Alec digs deeper into Ben’s death he uncovers the deaths of a couple other ex-policemen. And as the pieces start coming together, he discovers that not only did each of the men, including Ben, work the same case 15 years earlier where a young boy was rescued from a fire, but that all but one of them had committed suicide. WHY? What is the connection between the fire, the boy and the officers? I’ll give you a couple of clues…illegal behavior and money. But could Ben have been tied up in something illegal? Alec just can’t believe this to be true and is equally determined to prove his innocence.
The Last of the Good Guys kept me guessing throughout the whole book. I had my suspicions about half way through as to who was causing the “suicides” but there were a lot of doubts that went along with my reasoning. In The Last of the Good Guys, Ernesto Patino has done what he has done to me in the past…kept me guessing until the end.
2011
180 pages
LL Dreamspell
ISBN# 978-1-60318-272-0
Review Stir, Laugh, Repeat at Amazon.com
Labels: Book Reviews, chicken dishes, chicken verscruz, Conspiracy, cookbooks, Ernesto Patino, Martha A Cheves, Murder, Mystery, Stir Laugh Repeat, suspense, The Last of the Good Guys
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