The yards : a novel of suspense
(2021)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
MYSTERY/CARTER,A

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Mysteries MYSTERY/CARTER,A Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : The Mysterious Press, [2021]
©2021
EDITION
First Mysterious Press edition
DESCRIPTION

308 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781613162354, 1613162359 :, 1613162359, 9781613162354
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Git O'Rourke is from the wrong side of the tracks--even if, in the depressed Rust Belt town of Baxter, it's not always clear where that designation begins. A single mother, she works hard to support her daughter Charlie, but still finds time to cut loose every once in a while, to go to a local bar, drink martinis and find a companion for the night. Which is exactly how she ends up in a hotel room with a strange man passed out on heroin, and how she comes to possess the bag of money and guns that he left open as he got his fix. When the dead body is discovered at the Skyview Motor Court, a bullet through its forehead, officer Delia Mariola is one of the first on the scene. She recognizes the victim as the perpetrator in an earlier crime--a domestic violence call--but that does little to explain how he ended up in the situation in which they find him. She knows he's connected to the local mob, but the crime scene doesn't exactly resemble their typical hit. Instead, all signs point to a pick-up gone wrong. Which means that all signs point to Git"--