Street Justice: A Smokey Dalton Novel
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Publisher Description
"Kris Nelscott can lay claim to the strongest series of detective novels now being written by an American author." Salon
In the first week of the new decade, an emergency phone call shatters Chicago Private Detective Smokey Dalton's hopes for a good 1970. His adopted son Jimmy and Jimmy's best friend and cousin Keith Grimshaw need help.
Smokey arrives at a South Side hotel across from the boys' school in time to clean up a horrible mess, one the boys mostly solve on their own. But the boys' heroic actions echo across all of Chicago. Smokey finds himself standing alone against street gangs, the mob, and the Democratic Machine.
If he fights this battle and fails, he stands to lose not only Jimmy and their future together, but also his life.
A finalist for the 2015 Shamus Award for Best Original Paperback P.I. Novel by the Private Eye Writers of America.
"Easy comparisons can be made to Dave Robicheaux, Spenser, and Easy Rawlins, but Smokey is his own man. Women want to be near him and cook his dinner as he settles his nerves with three fingers of Scotch. A great read for fans of detectives guarding an inner city's grimy streets."—Library Journal
"Dalton's hard won small victory vividly illustrates a turbulent period of our recent cultural history."—Publishers Weekly
"... a gripping read that drags us deeper into [Smokey] Dalton's uneasy world."—Entertainment Weekly on War at Home
Read the whole gripping series:
A Dangerous Road, Book 1
Smoke-Filled Rooms, Book 2
Thin Walls, Book 3
Stone Cribs, Book 4
War at Home, Book 5
Days of Rage, Book 6
Street Justice, Book 7
Acclaim for the Smokey Dalton Series
• Edgar Award nomination
• Shamus nomination for Best Private Eye Hardcover Novel
• Winner of two Spotted Owl Awards for Best Mystery by a Northwest Writer
• Oregon Book Award Nomination
Kris Nelscott is an open pen name used by New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
The first Smokey Dalton novel, A Dangerous Road, won the Herodotus Award for Best Historical Mystery and was short-listed for the Edgar Award for Best Novel; the second, Smoke-Filled Rooms, was a PNBA Book Award finalist; and the third, Thin Walls, was one of the Chicago Tribune's best mysteries of the year. Kirkus chose Days of Rage as one of the top ten mysteries of the year and it was also nominated for a Shamus award for The Best Private Eye Hardcover Novel of the Year.
Entertainment Weekly says her equals are Walter Mosley and Raymond Chandler. Booklist calls the Smokey Dalton books "a high-class crime series" and Salon says "Kris Nelscott can lay claim to the strongest series of detective novels now being written by an American author."
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The Chicago Seven Conspiracy trial and the murder of Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark provide the backdrop for Nelscott's gritty seventh Smokey Dalton novel (after 2006's Days of Rage). In early 1970, Dalton struggles to make a living as an unlicensed Chicago PI and to parent his (unofficially) adopted 11-year-old son, Jimmy. A frantic phone call from his son's friend, Keith Grimshaw, brings Dalton to the Starlite Hotel, where Keith's 13-year-old sister, Lacey, has been lured and attacked. When Dalton tracks the assailant, he discovers that Lacey is far from the only victim of the Outfit, a mob-based group that preys on girls from a nearby school while police and politicians turn a blind eye. Dalton seeks help from a variety of sources who try to warn him off, but when things look hopeless, he finds unlikely allies. Dalton's hard won small victory vividly illustrates a turbulent period of our recent cultural history.
