Lola on Fire

A Novel

By: Rio Youers

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Arthur Ellis Award finalist Rio Youers combines vengeance and deceit, love and bullets, secrets, and twists in this high-octane action thriller with a vibrant emotional core.

Brody Ellis is short on luck and even shorter on cash to buy the medication his sister Molly needs.

Desperate, he robs a convenience store, but on the way out, he bumps into a young woman and loses his wallet. Just when he expects the cops to arrive, the phone rings. It’s Blair Mayo—the woman he bumped into—and she’s got the missing billfold.

Brody will get it back, but only if he does her a favor: steal her late mother’s diamonds from her wicked stepmom. But when he gets to the house, he finds a gruesome crime scene—and a security camera. Brody knows he’s been framed.

Back home, the terrified young man gets another call. The police won’t get the incriminating video footage, Blair says. Instead, her daddy, the notorious mobster Jimmy Latzo, will exact his own kind of revenge.

Brody and Molly realize that they’ve become pawns in a mysterious game—one that involves a notorious enforcer named Lola Bear who brutally crossed paths with Jimmy Latzo twenty-six years before. . . a ghost from the past who is intimately connected to their lives.

Great new author

This is the first book I've read from this author. And I'd never heard of him. But man, he's good. Excellent writing, excellent story telling. The action never lets up. It's unpredictable. A very enjoyable listen.

Early Book of the Year Lock

LOLA ON FIRE is an excellent thriller with excellent narration. LOLA ON FIRE by Rio Youers is guaranteed to make my 2021 favorite books. A very compulsive book that is hard to set aside, be sure to set aside plenty of free time when you start this one.

Meh

I could not wait for this book to end. I would like my credit back.