The Devil May Care
A McKenzie Novel
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- $20.99
Publisher Description
Riley Brodin is the granddaughter of Walter Muehlenhaus—a man as rich, powerful, and connected as anyone since the days of J. P. Morgan. Despite her family's connections, it's McKenzie she reaches out to when her relatively new boyfriend goes missing. Despite his reservations about getting involved with the Muehlenhaus family—again—Mac McKenzie agrees to look for one Juan Carlos Navarre. What he finds, though, is a man who appears to be a ghost.
The house—mansion, really—he told Riley he owned is actually a rental, barely lived in and practically devoid of personal effects. The restaurant he claimed to own is owned by another and Navarre merely an investor. He apparently has no friends, no traceable past, and McKenzie isn't the only one looking for him. Whoever Juan Carlos Navarre is and wherever he's gone, the one thing that is clear is that he's trouble, and is perhaps someone—as Riley's family makes clear—better out of the picture. Unfortunately for everyone, McKenzie likes trouble and trouble likes him, in The Devil May Care by David Housewright.
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In Edgar-winner Housewright's exceptional 11th novel featuring unlicensed Twin Cities PI Rushmore McKenzie novel (after 2013's The Last Kind Word), Riley Brodin, the scion of a wealthy Minnesota family, hires McKenzie to find her new boyfriend, Juan Carlos Navarre, who has gone missing. McKenzie soon discovers that the elusive, enigmatic Juan Carlos, supposedly the son of a Spanish entrepreneur, deceived Riley about his background. At a fancy club to which he was applying for membership, for example, Juan Carlos went out of his way to impress a receptionist that he was worthy of her respect odd behavior for even a nouveau riche. Meanwhile, a sadistic rapist-murderer is targeting Juan Carlos's friends and lovers, but soon sets his sights on McKenzie and his client. Capable of extreme violence when provoked, McKenzie is a thoughtful, compassionate judge of the confused and wayward people in his path. Wry humor helps balance the tension in this tale of misguided love and obsession.
