"Talton shines in weaving together the mystery elements of the plots with historical events from the Prohibition period. Fastpaced, gritty, and exciting, this one will have fans of both Depressionera and southwesternset crime fiction begging for more!"Booklist, Starred ReviewA fresh take on classic noir, City of Dark Corners reveals the seedy underbelly of the budding city of Phoenix in the 1930s and the lengths one man will go to uphold justice no matter the cost.Phoenix, 1933 A young city with big dreams and dark cornersGreat War veteran and rising star Gene Hammons lost his job as a homicide detective when he tried to prove that a woman was wrongly convicted of murder to protect a wellconnected man. Now a private investigator, Hammons makes his living looking for missing personsa plentiful caseload during the Great Depression, when people seem to disappear all the time.But his routine is disrupted when his brotheranother homicide detective, still on the forceenlists his help looking into the death of a young woman whose dismembered body is found beside the railroad tracks. The sheriff rules it an accident, but the carnage is too neat, and the staging of the body parts too ritual. Hammons suspects its the work of a "lust murderer"similar to the serial strangler whose killing spree he had ended a few years earlier. But who was the poor girl, dressed demurely in pink? And why was his business card tucked into her small purse? As Hammons searches for the victims identity,...

Binding: Paperback;256 pages; Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc; Classification: FF; Weight: 396 g; Dimensions: 141 x 215 x 24

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