Louis Romano

You Think I'm Dead: Based on the True Story of the Boy in the Box Louis Romano

Publisher Marketing: It's 1957. On a cold, February night, along a lonely road in Philadelphia, a little boy is found. DEAD. Someone still holds a secret. From HistoricMysteries.com "However, hope still remains as Court TV, 48 Hours and America's Most Wanted have featured this case on recent episodes. Perhaps the lead everyone has been waiting for will present itself." Two main questions still abound, having left kind-hearted people around the world stumped. #1 WHAT would be the motive for wanting this little boy dead? #2 WHY hasn't this murder been solved all these years? It was a simplistic time in the United States. Pre-Kennedy assassination, pre-landing on the moon, before Viet Nam, before Love-Ins, and unfortunately, before DNA testing. Now it's 58 years later and Detective Vic Gonnella and Raquel Ruiz with their Type A personalities won't rest until the heinous injustice that was done to this little boy is exposed. Follow them as they criss-cross the country to conduct interviews and tear apart clues left cold in the police files of the Philadelphia Police Department. As clues and leads are followed, Detective Gonnella and Raquel find themselves continuously detoured by people's secret, double lives. YOU THINK I'M DEAD is the second in the detective Vic Gonnella series with INTERCESSION being the first. Contributor Bio:  Romano, Louis Born in the Bronx, New York in 1950, Louis Romano is a successful businessman who began his literary career writing urban poetry in 1968. His career in sales, advertising and marketing campaigns continues in his capacity of CEO and Principal of Informa Energy Inc. an energy brokerage company. "FISH FARM" was Romano's debut work, a crime fiction that depicts the story of friend-of-the-mob Gino Ranno and his twenty-years-younger girlfriend Lisa. Their encounter with a ruthless Colombian drug dealer named Lucho Gonzales turns into a modern turf war, set in the famed landscape of the Hamptons. Of course, Ranno's family ties play a crucial role in his survival efforts, and in its essence, "Fish Farm" showcases the depths of loyalty within the Italian culture. Romano attributes the book's theme largely to the influence of his own heritage. A second generation Italian, his great-grandmother came to America from Sicily in 1891. Romano's real-life experience of growing up in New York at a time when the mob and Italian culture was peaking influenced more than just the characters in his book."BESA" is the second in the Gino Ranno series. The action takes place largely in The Bronx and Manhattan, New York. An Albanian's word of honor, their BESA, is the pride that has made their clans fearless fighters for centuries. In the streets of the Bronx, New York their code has made the "sons of the eagle" a community that has become a powerhouse over the last forty years. When one of their own is believed to have been killed by an Italian American with ties to a weakened New York Mafia family nothing will prevent the Albanians from taking back blood. a gjakmarrja is called for. The result is a head-on collision with two cultures that place blood vengeance above all forms of justice. The Gino Ranno series is partly inspired by stories from Sicily that were passed down through the generations, stories of murder, revenge, and of family ties and loyalties that carrie