Bad News Dads

A Novel

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About the Book

A devoted but struggling dad, along with two of his buddies on a luckless recreational baseball team, band together to solve a potential murder amongst their squad—all while trying to stay out of trouble with their wives and, someday, someday win a game. Batter up!

The Bad News Dads are a recreational baseball team in Los Angeles—a luckless one, made up of a bunch of forty-something dads, several of them of the stay-at-home variety. Tired of the constant grind of packing lunches and coordinating school pick-ups, the team’s catcher, Ben, is looking for some action. When a teammate’s wife dies tragically, Ben and his two closest friends decide that something fishy might have happened, and blithely take it upon themselves to solve what they’re sure is a murder. But can they fall down the dark rabbit hole of a murder investigation without destroying their home lives? Without ruining their friendships? And without getting killed themselves?

About the Author

Ericka Kreutz

Adam Frost was born in Vancouver, Canada, and is a screenwriter living in LA with his wife and two children. He is a writer, actor, and director known for Castle, Extreme Movie, and Tribal.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books (April 6, 2027)
  • Length: 304 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781668214091

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Raves and Reviews

“Adam Frost has written a propulsive, gritty, and funny thriller that is wholly relatable yet utterly original. Reading this novel feels like strapping yourself to the side of a runaway locomotive and racing through a twisty mountain pass. Buckle up for an exhilarating ride, a tribute to amateur sleuths, and a testament to that urge we’ve all felt to solve a labyrinthine crime on our own, when no one else could. Brilliant.”

– Terry Fallis, two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour

“With lovable characters and plenty of trouble on and off the field, Bad News Dads delivers a fresh and highly-entertaining take on the crime novel with equal parts suspense, humor, and heart. A story about ordinary guys stumbling into extraordinary trouble, all while trying to be good husbands, good fathers, and maybe even good baseball players, this one’s a home run!”

– Danielle Girard, USA Today bestselling author of Pinky Swear

"Hey, you ever wondered how Sex and the City might read if the genders were switched, NY swapped out for LA, and Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda were on the hunt for a murderer? Adam Frost's terrain is the male psyche, and in Bad News Dads he displays the same gift for incisive characterization that Candace Bushnell brought to the inner lives of her classic female characters."

– Nick Cutter, USA TODAY bestselling author of The Dorians and The Troop

"BAD NEWS DADS is a sharply-written mystery that's both highly entertaining and also a shrewd, complex examination of fatherhood and friendship." 

 

– Lou Berney, Edgar Award-winning author of CROOKS

"BAD NEWS DADS is a ripping page-turner, a cleverly-constructed mystery, and the best book I’ve read in recent memory about being a husband, a father, and a man. Put that all together and you get—time for a dad joke!—a real grand slam."

– Rob Hart, USA TODAY bestselling author of the Assassins Anonymous series 

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