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 | A gritty and atmospheric thriller by a talented young writer. Tulane professor and problem solver Nick Travers is minding his own business when a friend from his college football days asks a favour. Teddy Paris is a record producer and his biggest rap star, a kid from the projects named Alias, needs help. Somebody has ripped off Alias's assets. Always ready to bail out a buddy, Nick dives in, but the closer he gets to unmasking the villain, the more danger he unleashes until his own life is on the line. |
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 | San Francisco, September 1921: Silent-screen comedy star Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle is throwing a wild party in his suite at the St. Francis Hotel-girls, jazz, bootleg hooch...and a dead actress named Virginia Rappe. The D.A. says it was Arbuckle who killed her- crushed her under his weight-and brings him up on manslaughter charges. William Randolph Hearsts newspapers stir up the public and demand a guilty verdict. In desperation, Arbuckles defense team hires an operative from the famed Pinkerton detective agency to investigate and, they hope, discover the truth. The agents name is Dashiell Hammett... |
Publisher's Description:
 | Mesmerizing...a tour de force from one of the best crime writers at work today.-Michael Connelly White Shadow is a stunning (Lee Child) noir thriller based on real-life events. 1955: Tampa, Florida is a city pulsing with Sicilian and Cuban gangsters, cigar factories, sweet rum, and violence. The death of retired kingpin Charlie Wall- the White Shadow-has shocked the city, sending cops, reporters, and associates scrambling to find those responsible. As the trail winds through neighborhoods rich and poor, enmeshing the innocent and corrupt alike all the way down to the streets and casinos of Hav... |
Publisher's Description:
 | From one of crime fictions most interesting and passionate voices (Laura Lippman) comes a new noir crime classic (Mystery Ink) about one of the most notorious towns in American history. Reviewing White Shadow, the Associated Press wrote, It is as gritty as James Ellroys L.A. Confidential. And yet, the prose is as lyrical as James Lee Burkes Crusaders Cross. With White Shadow, Atkins has found his true voice. And with Wicked City, it is even truer. In 1955, Look magazine called Phenix City, Alabama, The Wickedest City in America, but even that may have been an understatement. It was a stew of o... |
Publisher's Description:
 | From the acclaimed, award-winning author comes an extraordinary new series about a real hero, and the real Deep South. With terrific, inflected characters, and a dark, subtle sense of place and history, The Ranger is an exceptional novel. -John Sandford One of the best crime writers at work today. -Michael Connelly Ace Atkins returns with an extraordinary new series. Northeast Mississippi, hill country, rugged and notorious for outlaws since the Civil War, where killings are as commonplace as in the Old West. To Quinn Colson, its home-but not the home he left when he went to Afghanistan. Now a... |
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