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Author Signing Table - John Dobbyn

Meet author John Dobbyn, a Boston-born author now living in Pennsylvania, while he is in town for the Boston Book Festival! He will be available to chat with you and sign copies of his books. John is the author of  "Deadly Diamonds", "Black Diamond", "Frame Up", and "Neon Dragon".

Deadly Diamonds": What do Boston, Dublin, and Sierra Leone have in common? The movement of blood diamonds at enormous profit but grave human expense: mafia killings in Boston and Ireland and child enslavement and murder in Sierra Leone. And who is ensnared in the middle of all of this: Michael Knight and Lex Devlin. Can they stop the enormously profitable trade of these tainted jewels? They must come between the Italian mafia in North Boston and the Irish mafia in South Boston including some remnants of the IRA in Ireland. They must also pit themselves against the enslaved and deadly child-army in Sierra Leone, who smuggle these diamonds into the mainstream for cash to buy weapons and drugs. At great personal risk, Knight and Devlin struggle to find a solution that satisfies this disparate combination of characters and, hopefully, dampens the diamond flow.

"Deadly Diamonds" takes you from mob strongholds in Boston to the diamond pits of Sierra Leone, in a plot twisty enough to leave skid marks on the page. A great read!"  Lisa Scottoline, New York Times Best-Selling Author of "Don't Go" and "Accused"

In "Black Diamond", Michael Knight and Lex Devlin agree to defend a jockey accused of murdering a fellow jockey during a race at Bostons Suffolk Downs. Michael's expertise in the machinations of the horse racing game is expected to serve them well. But a personal attachment to the murdered jockey thrusts Michael and Lex into the midst of conflict between Boston's Irish mafia and remnants of the terrorist branch of the Irish Republican Army. Now they are in the crosshairs of both, and the brutality of these combatants knows no bounds. As Michael and Lex uncover layer after layer of deceptions involved in the seamier side of horse racing, they become more dangerous to the gangs. In action that shuttles between Ireland and Boston, the lives of the lawyers as well as those close to them are in the gravest danger and the criminals show no mercy in their quest to put an end to this threat. As their investigation hurtles forward, it could end a wonderful law partnership due to the absence of living partners.

Jeremiah Healy, author of "The Only Good Lawyer" and "A Stain on the Robe" says, "John F. Dobbyn simply leaps forward in scope and intensity with each new legal thriller he writes. The opening chapter of "Black Diamond" earns a master's degree in catch-your-breath excitement, and the compelling plot explores a criminal defense attorney's worst nightmare: a growing conflict of interest, within the lawyer's mind and heart, between the victim and the client accused of the crime. A terrific novel."

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