"Top 25 Mystery Novels of 2022"The Strand MagazineChambers makes the smell and harrowing vibe of the mean streets of the nations capital come alive.Publishers WeeklyDickie Cornish, Washington, DC street denizen turned unlicensed private investigator, is forced at gunpoint to track down the daughter of an excon, setting up a chain of events that unleashes a war within the corrupt police force, exposes shocking conduct in child services, and unearths a secret that threatens to tear the nations capital apart. The second book in the Dickie Cornish mystery series, STANDALONE is a mustread for fans of S. A. Cosby, George Pelecanos, and Joe Ide.Its been over year since that bleak Christmas when a rich man peeled homeless, drugaddled Dickie Cornish from a steam grate, cleaned him up, and convinced him to use his street connections to track down his missing property. Now, as the summer sun bakes those same mean streets, the air is thick with crime, contagion, corruption. Dickie struggles with sobriety, antipsychotic meds, and counseling at the VA, but manages to make a meager living as a private investigator with his sidekick, Stripeuntil an excon named AlMayadeen Thomas sticks a gun to Dickies forehead and kidnaps him to a grim flophousea motel filled with squatters more desperate than the poor souls in the shelters.Thomas demands that Dickie find his daughter, missing for years from the motel in a notorious cold case. The other squatters plead for him to find their vanished...

Binding: Paperback;364 pages; Publisher: Three Rooms Press; Classification: FFC; Weight: 562 g; Dimensions: 140 x 210 x 25

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