Ex-cop turned private detective Frank Clemons navigates the mean streets of New York City in a gripping story of two seemingly unrelated cases that spiral into a life and death nightmare.
The first case seems simple. A wealthy man’s wife has grown distant, and he asks Frank Clemons, a private eye hardened by his past work on Atlanta’s homicide beat, to find out why. There are a number of reasons why a young woman might withdraw from her older husband, but the spurned spouse rejects them all. Her jewelry is disappearing, but he insists that she doesn’t have trouble with blackmail, drugs, or gambling.
The answer must be more complex, and he begs Frank to find out what it is. Meanwhile, an old woman familiar to Frank from his nights haunting Tenth Avenue has been murdered, and a gypsy priestess claims that she killed her. But Frank is unconvinced, and unearthing these women’s secrets will force him deep into the dark side of a city that he still cannot call home.
Af Lorenzo Carcaterra, Ian Rankin, Andrew Klavan, Anne Perry, Ed McBain, Elmore Leonard, J. A. Jance, Jay Mcinerney, Jeffery Deaver, John Connolly, Joyce Carol Oates, Laura Lippman, Michael Connelly, Nelson Demille, Otto Penzler, S. J. Rozan, Thomas H. Cook, Walter Mosley
Af Jeffery Deaver, C.J. Box, Andrew Taylor, Anne Perry, David Bell, Ken Bruen, Laura Lippman, Loren D. Estleman, Max Allan Collins, Mickey Spillane, Peter Blauner, Reed Farrel Coleman, Thomas H. Cook, William Link