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You are bidding on an autographed copy of Tim O'Mara's debut novel, Sacrifice Fly. 

Sacrifice Fly has been nominated for a 2013 Barry Award in the "Best First Novel" category. 

About the Book

In this outstanding mystery debut, ex-cop and schoolteacher Raymond Donne is  dragged back to the force when his student goes missing.

Raymond Donne wasn’t always a schoolteacher. Not only did he patrol the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as a police officer, but being the nephew ofthe chief of detectives, he was expected to go on to bigger things. But when an accident destroyed his knees and he was no longer able to do the job the way he wanted, he became a teacher in the same neighborhood. He put the force behind him and came to terms with the change, or at least he thought he had until Frankie Rivas, one of his students and a baseball phenom, stops showing up to class. With Frankie in danger of failing and missing out on a scholarship, Ray goes looking for him only to find Frankie’s father bludgeoned to death on the floor of their apartment. Frankie and his younger sister are gone, possibly on the run.

But did they really kill their father? Ray can’t believe it. But then who did, and where are Frankie and his sister? To bring Frankie and his sister home safely Ray must return to the life, the people, and the demons he walked out on all those years ago. 

About Tim O'Mara

Tim O’Mara has been teaching math and special education in the New York City public schools since 1987. He has written several short stories and his second Raymond Donne mystery acquired by Minotaur Books/St. Martin’s Press, Crooked Numbers, will hit bookstores October 15, 2013. For the past twelve years, he has hosted and produced a bi-weekly reading series of poetry and prose in New York’s East Village. 

He lives in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen with his wife, Kate, and their daughter, Eloise.

He was inspired to write Sacrifice Fly and create the character of Raymond Donne after making home visits as a schoolteacher in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He also had many dealings with the Youth Officers of the NYPD when he served as a middle school dean. It occurred to him that someone with experience in both worlds would make a great protagonist. Sacrifice Fly is his first novel.

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