Ernie Patino Joins Us on Before Bedtime!!!!!!!

We only have one guest this week on Before Bedtime, but he is certainly not going to disappoint! It is with great pleasure I introduce a fantastic crime writer, Ernie Patino! Here is just a little teaser for his intense, powerful novel Web of Secrets: Ernesto Patino holds the perfect credentials to author a mystery novel set in south Florida. For over twenty years, he worked as a Special Agent for the FBI and then as a Private Investigator. In Web of Secrets, Patino’s protagonist, Joe Coopersmith, shares a similar background, though Coopersmith, a retired FBI investigative assistant, now specializes in finding missing persons. Published by L&L Dreamspell, Web of Secrets is Patino’s second novel and his first featuring private-eye, Joe Coopersmith. Patino’s story opens with a fast paced action scene set in 1965 in a two-room shack located at the edge of the Everglades, just west of Miami. It then jumps forward three decades to Sarah Baker receiving a phone call from a blackmailer, who claims to know the circumstances of her illegal adoption thirty years ago. Sarah hires Coopersmith to help uncover the mystery of her birth mother. The case soon becomes more deadly than Coopersmith anticipated. Among the characters entering the fray are a talk radio show host on the brink of making it big; a Miami Beach socialite with a mobster-type husband; a computer expert about to be released from jail; and an elderly homeless man known as The Preacher. Their lives overlap in unexpected ways, and create a web from which Joe Coopersmith must untangle the truth. Patino infuses his story with moral dilemmas. Each character must make a choice that will greatly affect the path they tread. Is it worth pursuing the truth about the past if it means jeopardizing your relationships in the present? If you needed money to care for your sick spouse, the only woman you have loved for the past fifty years, how far would you go? The answers are woven in the Web of Secrets.