Now Available: BIG SHOES, an Austin Carr Mystery by Jack Getze

TAMPA, Fla. - Sept. 15, 2015 - PRLog -- The fourth mystery in the popular Austin Carr series, BIG SHOES by Jack Getze, is published today by Down & Out Books, and has the Jersey Shore businessman looking to get "out of the business." If only it were that easy. Rick Bylina, author of One Promises Too Many, calls Big Shoes "a five-star romp."

About Big Shoes …

Jersey Shore broker Austin Carr wants out of the stock and bond business but un-hooking from his mobbed-up partner won't be painless. Angelina "Mama Bones" Bonacelli is best known for professional consultations that deteriorate into criminal violence, breakfast appointments raided by the FBI and one particular Power Point presentation to a Jersey state racing commission that ended in automatic weapons fire.

Good thing she likes Austin.

She just won't let Austin out of the business. Plus Johnny "The Turk" Korsay is on a rampage and had his crooked cops arrest Luis, the bartender Austin's best friend. Why? Because Austin saw The Turk kill Heriberto. And now he's gunning for the stock broker.

It's another brush with violent death and a sexy redhead for Austin Carr when Mama Bones and her rival Jersey associate of a fading New York crime family battle for the future of imported sex slaves, boardwalk tourist business and surprising horse racing secrets, past and present.

Praise for the Austin Carr mysteries …

"Darkly comic, with an engaging protagonist."

— T.J. MacGregor, Edgar Winner, Author of The Tango Key Mysteries

"Big Numbers is a gritty, sexy, violent, and funny book."

— Liz Clifford at Reviewed by Liz

"Wonderful characters … well-written, entertaining … a good read."

— Connie Anderson for Armchair Interviews

"Gordon Gekko meets Janet Evanovich in this wry and winning caper — Jack Getze does it again!"

— Hank Phillippi Ryan, Agatha, Anthony and Mary Higgins Clark Award winning author of Truth Be Told

Meet the author …

Former Los Angeles Times reporter Jack Getze is Fiction Editor for Anthony nominated Spinetingler Magazine. Through the Los Angeles Times/Washington Post News Syndicate, his news and feature stories have been published in over five-hundred newspapers and periodicals worldwide. He's currently writing the next Austin Carr screwball mystery. His short stories have appeared in A Twist of Noir and Beat to a Pulp. He is an Active Member of Mystery Writers of America's New York Chapter.

He regularly blogs at Austin Carr's Crime Diary (http://austincarrscrimediary.blogspot.com/)

Founded in 2011, Down & Out Books (DownAndOutBooks.com (http://www.downandoutbooks.com/)) is an independent publisher of crime fiction based in Tampa, Florida. For more information, contact Christy@DownAndOutBooks.com.