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A gripping new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni.
The Great Depression. High-level corruption. And a murder that's about to become Seattle's hottest mystery. It's the kind of story that can make a reporter's career. If he lives to write about it.
Seattle, 1933. The city is in the grips of the Great Depression, Prohibition, and vice. Cutting his teeth on a small-time beat, hungry and ambitious young reporter William "Shoe" Shumacher gets a tip that could change his career. There's been a murder at a social club on Profanity Hill--an underworld magnet for vice crimes only a privileged few can afford. The story is going to be front-page news, and Shoe is the first reporter on the scene.
The victim, Frankie Ray, is a former prizefighter. His accused killer? Club owner and mobster George Miller, who claims he pulled the trigger in self-defense. Soon the whole town's talking, and Shoe's first homicide is fast becoming the Trial of the Century. The more Shoe digs, the more he's convinced nothing is as it seems. Not with a tangle of conflicting stories, an unlikely motive, and witnesses like Ray's girlfriend, a glamour girl whose pretty lips are sealed. For now.
In a city steeped in Old West debauchery, Shoe's following every lead to a very dangerous place--one that could bring him glory and fame or end his life.
Author Notes
Robert Dugoni graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with a degree in journalism and clerked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times before obtaining his doctorate of jurisprudence from the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law.
He practiced as a civil litigator in San Francisco and Seattle for 17 years. In 1999 he left the full-time practice of law to return to writing.
He is the author of the popular David Sloane series of books and the Tracy Crosswhite series.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (1)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Bestseller Dugoni (the Tracy Crosswhite series) returns with a sterling slice of noir set in Depression-era Seattle. Nineteen-year-old William "Shoe" Shumacher, a cub crime reporter at the Seattle Daily Star, has just arrived from Kansas City, Mo. After following a tip from Det. Ernie Blunt, Shoe hits it big with his first story: an account of former boxer Frankie Ray's murder at the Pom Pom Club, where members of Seattle's elite illegally drink and gamble. The Pom Pom's owner, well-connected gangster George Miller, is accused of shooting Frankie over a debt, but insists he was acting in self-defense. As Miller's murder case gradually becomes the "Trial of the Century" thanks to reporting like Shoe's, Seattle's teeming underbelly gets put on national display. Meanwhile, Shoe becomes convinced that Miller is covering up a bloody and vast conspiracy, and starts poking around where he's not welcome--all while falling in love with the dead man's girlfriend. Dugoni scores a decisive win with this tale of greed, lust, and bloodshed: it's chock-full of expertly drawn characters and plenty of historical lore, and its note-perfect noir atmosphere could accommodate James Cagney. Here's hoping this gets the series treatment. Agent: Meg Ruley, Jane Rotrosen Agency. (Apr.)
