Bad Tidings

“Perfect reading for a lazy Sunday. You can almost smell the bayou in Robert Coburn’s St. Julian Parrish Mysteries. Reminds me of my youth in Louisiana.”
- Hayes Brandwell, The Polemicist Post

Raquelle Harbor hosts its second annual Pirates Festival and this time it was going to be done right. Or so everyone thought until the gruesome discovery of a body. Sheriff JT Wainscot investigates and DEA Agent Dennis Palmer drops by with an odd request. The waters quickly become muddied when a second body turns up. Chief of Police Diana Brennan is running for office and the ongoing election hinders progress in the case. Politics abound. Love interests develop only to fade. Deceit, vanity and blackmail are constant companions in yet another death. A clue in the mysterious death of a Russian businessman in New York finds its way to St. Julian Parrish in a dangerous and surprising ending.

Robert Coburn is originally from Norfolk, Virginia. After high school in Norfolk, he spent three years in the US Army as a helicopter crew chief stationed in Berlin, Germany. He returned home to attend college at Richmond Professional Institute (Now VCU) in Richmond, Virginia, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Advertising. He also met his wife in Richmond while a student there.
Coburn has worked at major advertising agencies in New York and Los Angeles. His ads have won top awards both nationally and internationally. He is an instrument rated commercial pilot and plays saxophone. He and his wife now live in Carmel, California.