Smoke on the Water
An Amos Walker Mystery
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- 12,99 €
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- 12,99 €
Publisher Description
From the master of the hard-boiled detective novel and recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award comes Loren D. Estleman's next enthralling Amos Walker mystery, Smoke on the Water.
As the smoke from Canadian wildfires chokes Detroit, PI Amos Walker is tasked with investigating a fatal hit-and-run. The victim is Spencer Bennett, a junior law associate with the Waterford Group, and he supposedly had a file of confidential documents on him when he died. But those documents have now gone missing, and the firm is dead set on Walker finding them. As Walker digs deeper into the events leading to Bennett's death, all signs are pointing towards the crash being anything but accidental.
Summer in Detroit was hot enough before the smoke descended, but as the temperature rises and more bodies crop up in connection to the missing file, Walker will have to track down those documents -- and unearth why they were worth killing over -- before it's too late.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Wisecracking Detroit PI Amos Walker returns (after City Walls) in this superb hard-boiled mystery from Shamus winner Estleman. After attorney Spencer Bennett is killed by a hit-and-run driver while crossing a busy street, a wily representative for Bennett's firm hires Walker to look into the incident. At the time of his death, Bennett was carrying sensitive legal files that have since gone missing; his employers are eager to retrieve one in particular, which contains documents from a wrongful termination suit. Walker locates an eyewitness who's able to identify the vehicle and learns it was owned by Bennett and stolen by whoever ran him down. The fuzzy fate of the hit-and-run driver only adds to the mystery, and the more Walker digs, the foggier the case gets, with the details eventually becoming as murky as the smoke emanating from nearby Canadian wildfires. Estleman heightens the stakes with a steadily rising body count, and maneuvers his gumshoe into a satisfying, suspenseful showdown against a worthy adversary. The razor-sharp prose ("For weeks the air smelled like a wet dog dipped in lip wax") is a bonus. This is a top-shelf crime story.
