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Countdown - Couverture souple

Ramsay, Frederick

 
9781464210594: Countdown
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1464210594 ISBN 13 : 9781464210594
Editeur : Poisoned Pen Press, 2018

Synopsis

"Ramsay evokes a time and a place so vividly through Jesse's voice that I didn't read this novel so much as savor every page." ―Dana Stabenow, New York Times bestselling author
It's 1928, Jesse Sutherlin now has his own family and has made a success at the sawmill below Virginia's Buffalo Mountain working for JG Edwards. The country's economy is booming. And then David Privette, the sheriff who succeeded Dalton P. Franklin with whom Jesse had a run-in or two in Copper Kettle, arrives with surprising news―the body of Jesse's father has just been discovered in the pit at Smith's West Oxford Street ice house operation. How could this be? In 1918 a man had brought the family the news that Sutherlin, Sr., had died of the Spanish flu while seeking work up in Norfolk, Virginia.
Sheriff Privette doesn't take a deep interest in this cold crime, but Jesse is not letting it go. The body has been found with a money belt fat with fifty dollars, a small fortune. Twenty of the seventy dollars that Sutherlin Sr. was carrying is missing. So is his heirloom watch given to him for "thirty years' service in the AM and O Railroad which is now the Norfolk and Western. It was gold and big as an onion." What happened to the money and to "the Onion"? Was all this the work of a thief? Who was the man who showed up at the Sutherlins' door? There's not much to work with. But that won't stop Jesse who investigates as the 1928 boom progresses relentlessly toward 1929.

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À propos de l'auteur

Frederick Ramsay was raised on the east coast and attended graduate school in Chicago. He was a writer of mysteries set in Virginia, (the Ike Schwartz Mysteries) Botswana Mystery series, Jerusalem Mystery series and stand-alones (Impulse, Judas: The Gospel of Betrayal). He was a retired Episcopal Priest, Academic, and author.

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Éditeur
Poisoned Pen Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1464210594
ISBN 13 
9781464210594
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
192
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