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Sometimes it's unclear who deserves a favor... Despite her life-changing injury, Dee Rommel is as determined and scrappy as ever. Still adjusting to her new life working for her godfather, private investigator Gordy Greer, Dee is ready to try out her hi-tech running blade, returning to the annual 10K competition. A mysterious car crashes and burns in the middle of Portland, Maine's Casco Bay Bridge. A young, once-sex-trafficked woman is killed and Dee finds herself protecting orphaned Yuusuf, a high school valedictorian who may be able to point to the murderer. When a toxic web of crime is revealed, both traditional and extended family dynamics are in play, as well as greed and ambition. Old relationships haunt Dee when nothing or no one is as they seem. She has only 8 days to keep her pursuit of justice in play, fighting for her allies and her own life.

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"""Jule Selbo delivers yet another superb book in the Dee Rommel series. Filled with complex and diverse characters, and with a hero unlike any other in crime fiction, 8 DAYS will have you turning the pages well into the night. Selbo handles taboo subjects with a deft, nimble touch, and delivers a final showdown that you won't see coming. Impressive does not even begin to describe how good this novel is!"" - Joe Souza, acclaimed author of Neighbor and Pray for the Girl ""In 8 DAYS, Jule Selbo carries through beautifully with a rich plot, superb writing, and plenty of action. Dee Rommel is a sleuth with an engaging mix of grit and vulnerability who risks everything to save victims of injustice, and you'll root for her all the way."" - Gay Yellen, award-winning author of the Samantha Newman Mysteries ""Selbo gives us the Dee we all know and love, with her attitude and fearless antics, so the book never lacks excitement, action, and snarky comments. 8 Days is a fantastic, suspenseful thriller that fans of Lisa Jewell and Lisa Gardner will enjoy."" - Kristi Elizabeth for Los Angeles Book Review ""Jule Selbo's 8 Days will hold and keep you guessing to the last minute. Dee Rommel, with a heart cloaked but not closed, is the ideal pursuer of a gang abusing and terrifying marginalized teens in the seamy underside of vacationland Portland, Maine."" - Peter Nichols, author of The Rocks and A Voyage for Madmen ""With a back wind from the explosive writing of Jule Selbo, this Dee Rommel book takes off and doesn't stop. The characters are vivid and vital and the journey through Dee's physical and emotional shifts lead us through the mystery and gets us ready for the next plateau. Great read!"" - Susan Merson, author of How We See the Moon ""8 DAYS is a mystery lover's feast: a tough-minded yet compassionate female PI, a vibrantly portrayed Portland backdrop, and an unpredictable investigation roiling with timely social issues. All the while, Jule Selbo never makes a misstep; rock-solid writing and vivid characterization lead the reader down a dark path of sex-trafficking, exploitation, and deceit."" - Gillian French, author of Sugaring Off and The Lies They Tell ""Smart and highly suspenseful, 8 Days by Jule Selbo pits a group of teenagers against an organized drug gang in the quiet seaside city of Portland, Maine. Private investigator Dee Rommel tries to help a high school immigrant, and instead is caught up in murder. Page after page, the tension rises. Rommel is one of today's most compelling detectives, and Selbo writes with verve - weaving cops, white hat hackers, shopkeepers, and café goers into a murder mystery extraordinaire."" - Gayle Lynds, New York Times bestselling author of The Assassins"

Author Information

Jule Selbo spent a few decades working as a screenwriter in Los Angeles and then moved, four years ago, to Portland Maine to focus on writing novels. Five have been published so far - (two historical fiction Dreams of Discovery, Life of Explorer John Cabot, and Breaking Barriers, Laura Bassi's Life (Goethe Award recognition) and a mystery romance Find Me In Florence (first place Chanticleer Award for Women's Fiction). Finally ready to tackle her favorite genre, crime/mystery) she wrote 10 DAYS: A Dee Rommel Mystery (listed on the 2021 top-five list of Kirkus' best crime/mysteries, nominated for a Clue Award, Maine Literary Award, received a Foreword Review Honorable Mention and a nomination for the Silver Falchion Award. 9 DAYS: A Dee Rommel Mystery, the second book in the series was published in 2022. 8 Days: A Dee Rommel Mystery is the next book in the ten-part series. https: //www.juleselbo.com

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