Sidewalk Saint
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
Amateur sleuth and Child Protective Officer Foggy Moscowitz must find a missing girl with a special gift in this latest noir mystery set in Florida.
Florida, 1976. Foggy Moscowitz knows he’s having a bad night when he wakes to find a gun pressed to his face. Nelson Roan has busted out of his prison cell and broken into Foggy’s house, demanding Foggy finds his eleven-year-old daughter, Etta. But as Foggy searches for Etta, it seems her father is not the only person who wants her found: Canadian mobsters, crazy New York Irishmen, the FBI and even the Seminole elite are all on her trail. But why?
Etta has a special gift – and she knows something that certain people would go to any lengths to make sure stays buried in her memory. As Foggy helps Etta to reveal what she knows, he uncovers a sinister plot with tentacles that stretch further and higher than he could ever have imagined . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In DePoy's enjoyable fourth mystery featuring reformed crook Foggy Moscowitz (after 2018's Icepick), Foggy, who was once "Brooklyn's finest Jewish car thief," now lives in Fry's Bay, Fla., where he has managed to start a new life as a Child Protective Services investigator. He becomes involved in a complex inquiry after Nelson Roan, an escaped prisoner, breaks into his home. At gunpoint, Roan asks Foggy to find his 11-year-old daughter, Etta, who was put into the child welfare system after his wife died of cancer. Foggy tracks the missing girl to Lake City, where he finds that her adoptive parents have moved out of their home and that someone directed the post office to forward their mail to Foggy's office address. Things only get more mysterious after Foggy learns that gangsters are seeking Etta, who has a photographic memory. DePoy succeeds at making the over-the-top elements plausible in this effective blend of humor and an original plotline. Readers will hope to see a lot more of Foggy.
