04418cam a2200493 4500 508449367 TxAuBib 20210810120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781464213274 1464213275 B08NBZKJWZ Amazon 15cdeb82-00cb-4703-a8cf-077f7aa091fb OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5850304 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Talton, Jon. City of Dark Corners [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Sourcebooks, 2021. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1582kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. mystery thriller suspense. Mystery and Suspense. private investigator. 20th_century_setting. historical mystery. Great Depression. missing persons. Organized Crime. murder mystery. detective. phoenix. Arizona. police. 1930s. HTML:<p><strong>"Talton shines in weaving together the mystery elements of the plots with historical events from the Prohibition period. Fast-paced, gritty, and exciting, this one will have fans of both Depression-era and southwestern-set crime fiction begging for more!"<br /> —Booklist, Starred Review</strong></p> <p><strong>A fresh take on classic noir, City of Dark Corners reveals the seedy underbelly of the budding city of Phoenix in the 1930s and the lengths one man will go to uphold justice no matter the cost.</strong></p> <p>Phoenix, 1933: A young city with big dreams and dark corners</p> <p>Great War veteran and rising star Gene Hammons lost his job as a homicide detective when he tried to prove that a woman was wrongly convicted of murder to protect a well-connected man. Now a private investigator, Hammons makes his living looking for missing persons—a plentiful caseload during the Great Depression, when people seem to disappear all the time.</p> <p>But his routine is disrupted when his brother—another homicide detective, still on the force—enlists his help looking into the death of a young woman whose dismembered body is found beside the railroad tracks. The sheriff rules it an accident, but the carnage is too neat, and the staging of the body parts too ritual. Hammons suspects it's the work of a "lust murderer"—similar to the serial strangler whose killing spree he had ended a few years earlier. But who was the poor girl, dressed demurely in pink? And why was his business card tucked into her small purse? As Hammons searches for the victim's identity, he discovers that the dead girl had some secrets of her own, and that the case is connected to some of Phoenix's most powerful citizens—on both sides of the law.</p> <p><strong>Perfect for fans of David Baldacci and historical mysteries, City of Dark Corners puts readers at the heart of the fear and uncertainty of the Great Depression and the lawlessness of America during prohibition.</strong></p> <p><strong>Additional praise for City of Dark Corners:</strong><br /> "This gritty stand-alone deals with Phoenix's rough-and-tumble past and its questionable police force in the 1930s. Talton excels at creating the ambiance of historic Phoenix. [Suggested] for fans of realistic historical mysteries or Phoenix Noir."<br /> —<strong>Library Journal, Starred Review</strong></p> <p>"References to movie actors and other celebrities of the day, as well as speakeasies and bootleggers, lend atmosphere to this well-crafted tale involving desperate people who could easily disappear."<br /> —<strong>Publishers Weekly</strong></p>. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Mystery. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-08-10 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=15cdeb82-00cb-4703-a8cf-077f7aa091fb&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=15cdeb82-00cb-4703-a8cf-077f7aa091fb&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=15cdeb82-00cb-4703-a8cf-077f7aa091fb&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)