Man One
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Publisher Description
Hard-boiled Private Investigator Amos Walker races to save a beautiful widow in the latest mystery from Loren D. Estleman—master of the noir PI novel and recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
“Loren D. Estleman is my hero”—Harlan Coben
“Hanging out with Walker offers limitless pleasures”—NYT Book Review
“Reading a new Amos Walker novel is an act of pure joy”—Booklist
Young widow Sage Holland doesn’t look like a murderer—and that’s because she isn’t one. The beautiful dame has driven non-stop from her home in frozen Alaska to seek out the services of private investigator Amos Walker, bringing not just the ice and snow with her. Sage has a stalker: her late husband’s vengeful brother, who’s determined to make her pay for a crime she didn’t commit. Someone killed David, but it wasn’t her.
Walker is no fool. He knows not to take the words of husky-voiced, sorrowful women at face value. But Sage is in sore need of protection, and Walker’s hunt for clues on Detroit’s wintry streets soon leads to far more dead bodies than expected. He’ll have to use every trick he’s learned if he’s to keep not just his client’s blood, but also his own from staining the snow.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Detroit PI Amos Walker helps a woman escape her vengeful brother-in-law in the sterling latest installment of Estleman's long-running series (after Smoke on the Water). Sage Holland, niece of Walker's deceased lover, Iris, has driven from Alaska to Michigan to seek his help. After Sage was convicted of poisoning her husband, David, by slipping ricin into his dinner, the decision was overturned on appeal because the prosecution tampered with the jury. Despite the exoneration, David's brother, Alaska cop Greg Holland, still holds Sage liable for David's death. Greg has stalked Sage all the way to the Midwest, harassing her with threats of violence at every opportunity, and Sage begs Walker to make it stop. Walker agrees to see what he can do, and the stakes skyrocket when his investigation appears to lead to the murder of one of his informants. Estleman enhances the tight plot with characteristically excellent prose (Michigan is a place "where we measure our summers in hours and our winters in months"). This series shows no signs of wear and tear.
