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"The
best yet in one of my favorite series ever -- fast and funny,
yet it packs a serious punch. This is hardboiled crime fiction
at its best."
-- Steve Hamilton, two-time Edgar Award-winning
author of "The Second Life of Nick Mason."
Since he got fired from his newspaper job last year, former
investigative reporter Liam Mulligan has been piecing together
a new life for himself—one that straddles both sides
of the law. He’s getting some part-time work with his
friend McCracken’s detective agency. He’s picking
up beer money by freelancing for a local news website. And
he’s looking after his semi-retired mobster-friend’s
bookmaking business. But Mulligan still manages to find trouble—when
it isn’t finding him. He’s feuding with a serial-killer
cat that leaves its kills on his porch. He’s so obsessed
with a baffling jewelry robbery that he can’t let it
go. And he’s enraged that someone in town is torturing
animals. All of this distracts him from a big case that needs
his full attention. The New England Patriots, shaken by murder
charges against one of their players, have hired Mulligan and
McCracken to investigate the background of a college star they’re
thinking of drafting. At first, the job seems routine, but
when they begin asking questions, they get push-back. The player
has something to hide—and someone is willing to kill
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“I
can't believe this is a debut -- DeSilva writes with a master's
understanding of the genre. The dialogue is spot on, the humor
is wry, and the world is gritty enough that I still have dirt
under my fingernails. Rogue Island is a winner.”
-- Marcus Sakey, bestselling author of The Amateurs. |
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“Bruce
DeSilva accomplishes something remarkable: He takes everything
we love about the classic hardboiled detective novel and turns
it into a story that's fresh, contemporary, yet timeless.”
-- Joseph Finder, New York Times best-selling author of Vanished and Buried
Secrets. |
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"Providence
Rag is both a terrifying revelation of the mind of a born killer
and a dramatic portrait of a newspaper man determined to do right
no matter what.”
-- Howard Frank Mosher, author of Waiting
for Teddy Williams |
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"The character
of Liam (Mulligan) is going into his fourth book in this series,
but this is most definitely a stand-alone novel that can be read
by suspense lovers who may have somehow missed the first brilliant
books by this author. A quick and compelling story of murder,
ethics, and very tough decisions for local law and government
to make, this is a powerful crime story with fantastic plotting.
. . . Every word is more than entertaining.”
-- Suspense Magazine. |
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Bruce
DeSilva's crime fiction has won the Edgar and Macavity Awards;
has been listed as a finalist for the Shamus, Anthony, and
Barry Awards; and has been published in ten foreign languages.
His short stories have appeared in Akashic Press's award-winning
noir anthologies. And his book reviews have been published
in The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Publishers
Weekly,
The Strand Magazine, and scores of other print and online
publications.
Previously, he was a journalist for forty years, most recently
as writing coach world-wide for The Associated Press, editing
stories that won nearly every major journalism prize including
the Polk Award (twice), the Livingston (twice) and the Pulitzer.
Earlier in his career, he worked as an editor and national
writer at The Hartford Courant and as an investigative reporter
at The Providence Journal. He has worked as a consultant for
more than fifty newspapers, taught at the University of Michigan
and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism,
and lectured at Harvard University's Nieman Foundation.
He and his wife, nationally known poet Patricia Smith, live
in New Jersey with two enormous dogs named Brady and Rondo.
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