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A. M. Dunnewin grew up with a taste for mysteries and thrillers, inherited ever so lovingly from her family. An affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association, A. M.’s own stories cover a wide range of genres that tend to take a dark turn when least expected. With a B.A. in Psychology, she’s a gambler of words, obsessed with chai tea, and addicted to books – everything from classical literature to graphic novels. Other hobbies include art, history, music, equestrianism, and a good classic film. She currently dwells in Northern California.
Reviewed by Rosie Malezer for Readers' Favorite
Speakeasy: A Novella is a fiction novel written by A.M. Dunnewin. The year is 1925 and as Eddie Durante checks the inventory at his underground speakeasy, most of Eddie’s patrons are oblivious to the club’s mobster clientele. Eddie still mourns the loss of his wife, Kate, after her bullet-riddled car had been pulled from the lake almost four months earlier. When the head of the Durante family learns that a hit has been put out on his nephew by the Caprice family, he sends one of Eddie’s cousins – the Durante family’s best hit man, trigger-happy Joe – to protect Eddie until the identity of the Caprice family hit man can be found and dealt with. After Eddie finds his uncle’s bodyguard’s dead body in the back room, he quickly realizes that the insidious wheels have already been set in motion. As the shocking truth about the night of Kate’s murder comes to light, the bodies pile up fast inside the speakeasy until the bitter, unforgiving, bloody end.
Despite the morbid undertones in the book, the humor which has been injected in precisely the right doses and in the right places makes this book a winner. A.M. Dunnewin has easily found a way to take the reader back in time to face a mob war between two formidable families who lose no sleep after taking an innocent life. Speakeasy: A Novella is masterfully written, with each of the main players created with enough backstory and depth to make them realistic and easy to relate to. I very much enjoyed Speakeasy: A Novella and even found myself cheering towards the end which came with a hefty dose of Karma in its most potent form. I recommend this book to all readers who enjoy tales of mobsters getting their just deserts for doing the unthinkable.
