Jersey Girl

A New Book Written by Robert White

Jersey Girl, is being released by Close to the Bone Publishing on Aug. 15.

Raina Burke is a tough woman managing a server farm for a company in Nigeria. When her supervisor orders her back to Silicon Valley, he insists she bring her security team, two violent mercenaries. Raina realizes she’s going to be sacrificed in the scandal brewing over missing and dead workers. But Raina’s time in Africa has transformed her. She identifies with the Yoruban goddess of storms and lightning. Like her revered goddess, Raina brings upheaval to anyone sparking her wrath. The list begins in the American Midwest with an unsuspecting couple and will envelop a middle-aged detective, hunting a trio of killers in the wake of their destructive path.

Jersey Girl can be pre-ordered on Amazon Kindle

Bio: Robb White lives in Northeastern Ohio. He is a Derringer-nominated author of genre fiction and three series detectives: Thomas Haftmann, Raimo Jarvi, and Jade Hui. Betray Me Not was selected for distinction by the Independent Fiction Alliance in 2022. His 2024 publications include a collection of noir tales: Fade to Black: Noir Stories of Grifters, Drifters, and Unlovable Losers and Danse Macabre in New Orleans (2024). 

You can find several of Robb White’s short stories on The Yard: Crime Blog

His other books can be found on Amazon.


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