William L. Myers, Jr. is a Philadelphia lawyer with 30 years of trial experience in state and federal courts. He still actively practices law while writing the Philadelphia Legal series. He branches out into noir territory with his latest book Remi Bone, to be released by Oceanview in September.

Remington Bohne became Remi Bone in elementary school and the name followed him into his adulthood. After tours in the Gulf War and a brush with the law, Bone settled into life with the love of his life, working as a highly skilled mechanic on foreign-made automobiles. When Bea died he was devastated but he vowed he would finish raising Bea’s daughter Kayla. He has been saving for Kayla’s college expenses in the four years since, doing without, working overtime, while Kayla focused on making good grades and acing the college entrance exams.

A visit with a cardiologist throws a huge wrench into Bone’s plans. His heart is failing and he is unlikely to survive to see Kayla through college. He is reeling from that news, then Kayla is admitted to the university of her dreams. He needs to expedite his savings program so when his shady boss offers him $25,000 to rub out a gang member pushing heroin to high school students, he agrees to do it. He isn’t happy but he does it. Once the job is done, other contract killings follow, each with a higher price tag than the one before. Bone’s determination to provide for Kayla balanced against his consciousness of wrongdoing keeps him on edge while gritting his teeth and carrying out the murders.

A fast-moving, tightly woven story about how sometimes none of the choices we have are good, and the only way forward is to choose the one with the least awful consequences. Bone is a deeply principled man and far more intelligent than the sleazoids who picked him to be their hired shooter understand. His scenes with Kayla, from whom he has hidden his illness, are among the best parts of the book. The ending is as powerful as it is unexpected. Recommended.

This was a strange book. If you have come to the reviews you have already read a synopsis so I won't say much. Remi is dying and wants to make certain his daughter has enough money to go to college so he agrees to be a killer for hire . He justifies it because he was going to kill a drug dealer. and then he gets talked into doing another and then another but they all are people who are a drag on society. There is an interesting ending, and the reader is left to wonder if what he did was so wrong. A lot of characters to keep track of but it was a very good quick read. I would not give it to high schoolers. I received this as an arc from NetGalley and am under no pressure for a positive review.

Remi is in a difficult position - he's been diagnosed with late stage congestive heart failure and needs to provide college tuition for his dead wife's daughter. The only way to earn money quickly is to perform a hit on a drug dealer who has agreed to testify against his cohorts.
After the successful hit, he is offered other jobs. His change in behavior becomes concerns his daughter who begins to follow him. Will he manage to make enough to cover her four years of college before he dies and without her discovering how the money was earned?
Fast paced read.
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Remi Bone by William L. Myers
East Coast folks in the Philadelphia region will enjoy the vivid descriptions of Philadelphia. There is a tiny bit of supernatural in the mystery of the notorious Mr. Smith. Remi is given a fatal diagnosis and wants to provide a future for his daughter. This leads Remi down a very unsavory path.
There is a lot of karma in this book. You reap what you sow seems like a premise the author kept at the forefront of their creative process. The descriptions of Philadelphia and its less savory elements will annoy some and have others nodding their heads in recognition of places and people.
The book was entertaining and I enjoyed it.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this captivating and thoroughly FUN eARC.

I am an enthusiastic fan of private investigator, mystery, and police procedural novels, as well as a fan of movies (yup including Pulp Fiction) and books about the mob, etc,

The best book from this author, I have followed his career for a few years.

I found this novel about a semi-reluctant serial killer, a car mechanic who is contract killing to put his daughter through college, oddly sweet and touching.

Have no doubt about it, this is a highly fun, well-written novel with solid character development and a side order of levity. I will watch for more from this author!

Until next time, remember,,dear readers, ALWAYS get a second opinion if you get a dire health warning.

this was a really solid, fast-paced thriller read that i got through easily in a few hours. the writing is solid and witty, does a good job of introducing all the characters, and doesn't bite off more than it can chew with its themes, discussing political corruption, the ethics of murder, religious views and family ties all at once.

i did think the blurb was a little misleading especially about how many people he ended up killing. it kind of makes it out to be that he's killing all these people on a murder spree when it says "the most wanted hitman in town", but really he is the one that is starting to seek out these jobs and its really not that much murder in the end!

the twist though. wow. my mouth DROPPED when the mayor was revealed to be his daughter's bio dad. the web of connection was weaved so well between all the characters and no one was introduced only to be useless later. they all connected up in the end.

is it cheesy to say id recommend this to people that like breaking bad? the book referencing that though and acknowledging the similarities definitely made it stronger. still definitely a recommended book though.

Reme Bone has problems after visiting a doctor and being told he hasn't many birthdays to look forwards to in the future. Having promised both his stepdaughter and himself that there would be enough money for the prestigious college where Kalya is already accepted,
There are only two choices. Disappointment or selling your soul to the dark side.
A well-thought-out plot and writing style have twists and turns, making you dizzy and keeping you on your toes, which Elmore Leonard would have approved of.
An independent review Thanks to NetGalley / Oceanview Publishing

Get ready to suspend reality, buckle up, and take off on a thrill ride of murder and mayhem. When our protagonist finds out that he’s dying, he needs to raise money fast to ensure his daughter’s future is secure. With that premise in place, the hits keep on coming.

Remi Bone is so much fun! Taking place in Philadelphia, the titular Remi is told by his doctor that he’s dying soon of some kind of vague heart disease that you only need to know about because that’s how the engine of the plot starts, with him becoming a hitman for his boss at the mechanic’s shop to set aside the money needed for his daughter Kayla’s college education. He’s armed with a magical realism gun that hits his targets- all characters of ill repute -directly in the heart. The tangential or secondary characters are equally as much caricatures of brazen blowhards around the city as they are realistic characters, but that’s all part of the fun, akin to The Taking of Pelham 123 by John Godey. What else is all part of the fun is how seemingly everyone is having an affair, and the plot at times kind of follows in the tracks of these illicit kisses. The book has a teasing cold face to its portrayal of the absurd events, and the language has its own tempo and timbre that adds to the comedy, both sly and blunt. The ending is just the right amount of implausible with a very stoic Secret Treaty handshake. This whole book is a fucking treat, succeeding in its mission stated at the beginning to be an homage to Elmore Leonard.

The last week I managed to get myself in a reading slump. Why that happened I don't know, but it may have to do with my overly ambitious reading plans (yeah, same story over and over again 😉). But this ARC that I got, helped me to go right out of it again. This psychological thriller called 'Remi Bone' is a fast-paced read that follows our main character Remi, who - knowing that he has not much time anymore - wants to know his daughter provided for for when he will be gone. Not many options to earn a lot of money in short time, Remi decides to let himself be hired as a hitman. But not just Remi tries to take matters in his own hand and so danger is lurking everywhere...

I do like some morally grey characters every once in a while, but at the same time i like it when it is clear, who the real bad people are. I find such a simple setup quite soothing and this book provided that for me. Although the characters were not particularly loveable, I found myself hooked anyway and it was quite a quick read therefore. Character development did sparsely happen, but this is not the kind of book where that bothers me or where it is necessary. The characters in itself I found quite realistically drawn. Diversity in choice of hte characters race was moderate divers, which is always a very good thing in my opinion :)

I didn't care too much for the constant mentioning of intercourse related stuff, but other than that, there is not much to complain about. Each time when I feared that the plot would diverge into chlichè-territory the author managed to not go there (VERY much appreciated). Although there was one scene that I thought was quite unrealistic and got me shaking my head quite a bit (I do not want to spoiler anyone, so if you want to talk mre about that, just head over to my Instagram and DM me!). The short chapters helped to make this a very easy read and I can just recommend this for anyone out there in a reading slump!

The only bigger downside of this thriller were on the one hand the ending (quite unbelievable and morally more than questionable. Also here the characters didn't seem to act coherent in my opinion). And on the other hand I really didn't like how drug addicted persons were describend in the story. They were literally just called 'Zombies' most of the time and seemed to be more thing- than human-like, and were portraied as merely a nuisance that had to be taken care of (meaning gotten rid off). Butif you can overlook that I can say:

Overall still a solid and enjoyable read :)

⭐⭐⭐ 3.5 stars from me, solid read