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1) The Arm
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An ambitious gambler may lose it all in this novel by an Edgar Award-winning "superlative storyteller" ( Publishers Weekly ). He was known as Cully the Arm -- the best crapshooter in Chicago. Life was a game of both skill and luck, and he'd made his way to the big city seeking his chance to be a winner. Before long he was moving between bars, backrooms, brothels -- anywhere a man could gamble. Then he met a seductive woman named Lorry, who was playing...
2) The Killings
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Two LAPD detectives are at odds over a horrifying case in this "taut shocker" of a novel by an Edgar Award-winning author ( The Boston Globe ). A pair of twins have been brutally murdered, and Los Angeles detectives George Cascade and Ed Fenner find themselves working a case with puzzling sexual overtones. When a young, intellectually disabled African American becomes the object of suspicion, tensions flare between the two officers -- and it will...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"[An] unusual cop story set in Chicago . . This graphic depiction of urban and emotional decay carries a powerful, lasting punch." -- Publishers Weekly When a topless dancer is beaten to death, police detective Joe Kiley strongly suspects her boyfriend, a mob kingpin's brother, is the killer. He isn't -- but in the course of trying to track him down, Kiley's partner winds up dead during an unauthorized stakeout. Now Kiley wants vengeance -- if not...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A collection of short fiction, including an Edgar Award–nominated story, about hard-luck characters and the human instinct to survive.
A survivor of Little Bighorn faces down the resulting trauma in the decades following the bloody battle. An old man who has lost his late wife's cat joins forces with an unlikely partner to rescue abused animals. An ex–racecar driver contends with criminals in the midst of the famous Dakar Rally. Challenge...
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