Little Sister's Last Dose
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
WELCOME TO NEW YORK
A PERILOUS PLAYGROUND FOR THE RICH, THE YOUNG AND
THE TROUBLED, AND THE CRIMINALS WHO PREY UPON THEM.
Fueled by black coffee and vengeance, Felix Novak speeds across the country to New York City on a mission to find and kill whoever's responsible for his sister's death. Felix's childhood friend, Soraya Navarro, collided with the drug-addled Penelope the night she died. But Soraya may be too close to the nightclub establishment to really help.
With time against him, Felix is forced to turn to the last person he wants to see: his father. A disgraced former cop turned P.I., Franklin Novak has the connections and muscle to work the city's underworld. Soraya doesn't trust Franklin, and the past has given her good reason. But Felix knows Franklin may be their only hope if they're ever going to catch his sister's killer.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
When a young runaway fatally ODs in a New York hotel room, her brother and an old childhood friend retrace her steps to prove she was murdered in Minter's edgy debut, the first of a trilogy featuring hard-boiled hipsters and amateur sleuths Soraya Navarro and Felix Novak. Beautiful 20-year-old Soraya, a Barnard sophomore, dates the manager of the nightclub where Penelope Novak was last seen alive; handsome Felix may have spent his formative years living in a trailer in Oregon, but in his determination to avenge his sister's death and confront his estranged father, he's as tough as the most jaded Manhattanite. Twelve years earlier, Soraya's dad, Billy, and Felix's dad, Franklin, were best friends and NYPD partners, but when a bungled drug bust left Billy dead, Franklin was accused of leaving him to die. As Felix tries to piece together the story of his sister's last days, he forges a shaky but crucial bond with his damaged, wise-cracking father, now a PI. The interpersonal connections are complex and multilayered, and at times stretch plausibility. With tough guys la Chandler, brand names la Bret Easton Ellis and a pop culture sensibility la MTV and Page 6, this is a mishmash of influences that's sometimes bracing and other times exasperating: frankly, there's a touch too much attitude. Still, this is an ambitious, refreshing mystery in which the city is as much a character as the good and bad guys; it may bring mysteries to a new, young audience.
