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Hard-boiled Private Investigator Amos Walker races to save a beautiful widow in the latest mystery from Loren D. Estleman-master of the noir PI novel and recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award. ""Loren D. Estleman is my hero""-Harlan Coben ""Hanging out with Walker offers limitless pleasures""-NYT Book Review ""Reading a new Amos Walker novel is an act of pure joy""-Booklist Young widow Sage Holland doesn't look like a murderer-and that's because she isn't one. The beautiful dame has driven non-stop from her home in frozen Alaska to seek out the services of private investigator Amos Walker, bringing not just the ice and snow with her. Sage has a stalker: her late husband's vengeful brother, who's determined to make her pay for a crime she didn't commit. Someone killed David, but it wasn't her. Walker is no fool. He knows not to take the words of husky-voiced, sorrowful women at face value. But Sage is in sore need of protection, and Walker's hunt for clues on Detroit's wintry streets soon leads to far more dead bodies than expected. He'll have to use every trick he's learned if he's to keep not just his client's blood, but also his own from staining the snow.

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Loren D. Estleman is my hero * <b>Harlan Coben</b> * Whatever your literary tastes, a shot of Amos Walker is always bracing . . . Hanging out with Walker offers limitless pleasures * <b>New York Times Book Review</b> * Superb . . . A top-shelf crime story * <b>Publishers Weekly Starred Review</b> of <b>Smoke on the Water</b> * Estleman is such an arrestingly imaginative writer . . . Estleman continues to demonstrate why he's at the top of his field * <b>Booklist</b> on <b>Smoke on the Water</b> * [A] superior whodunit . . . Fans of Chandler and Hammett will be thrilled * <b>Publishers Weekly Starred Review</b> of <b>City Walls</b> * Estleman's Amos Walker [is] a hard-boiled PI straight off Chandler's mean streets . . . Those who can't get enough of fast-talking PIs are in for a treat * <b>Booklist</b> on <b>Monkey in the Middle</b> * Razor-edged prose that Raymond Chandler would appreciate . . . The portrayal of the Motor City is as vivid as James Ellroy's L.A. Estleman makes sustaining a long-running series' high quality look easy * <b>Publishers Weekly Starred Review</b> of <b>Monkey in the Middle</b> * Reading a new Amos Walker novel is an act of pure joy: the writing is perfect, the story impeccably plotted, the resolution satisfying * <b>Booklist</b> on <b>Cutthroat Dogs</b> * Outstanding . . . Estleman makes old-school, dogged, hit-the-pavement sleuthing plausible, while peppering the narrative with biting prose. This long-running series shows no sign of flagging * <b>Publishers Weekly Starred Review</b> of <b>Cutthroat Dogs</b> *

Loren D. Estleman is my hero * <b>Harlan Coben</b> * Superb . . . everything feels fresh, as though we're meeting Amos and his Detroit for the first time * <b>Booklist</b> * Whatever your literary tastes, a shot of Amos Walker is always bracing . . . Hanging out with Walker offers limitless pleasures * <b>New York Times Book Review</b> * Superb . . . A top-shelf crime story * <b>Publishers Weekly Starred Review</b> of <b>Smoke on the Water</b> * Estleman is such an arrestingly imaginative writer . . . Estleman continues to demonstrate why he's at the top of his field * <b>Booklist</b> on <b>Smoke on the Water</b> * [A] superior whodunit . . . Fans of Chandler and Hammett will be thrilled * <b>Publishers Weekly Starred Review</b> of <b>City Walls</b> * Estleman's Amos Walker [is] a hard-boiled PI straight off Chandler's mean streets . . . Those who can't get enough of fast-talking PIs are in for a treat * <b>Booklist</b> on <b>Monkey in the Middle</b> * Razor-edged prose that Raymond Chandler would appreciate . . . The portrayal of the Motor City is as vivid as James Ellroy's L.A. Estleman makes sustaining a long-running series' high quality look easy * <b>Publishers Weekly Starred Review</b> of <b>Monkey in the Middle</b> * Reading a new Amos Walker novel is an act of pure joy: the writing is perfect, the story impeccably plotted, the resolution satisfying * <b>Booklist</b> on <b>Cutthroat Dogs</b> * Outstanding . . . Estleman makes old-school, dogged, hit-the-pavement sleuthing plausible, while peppering the narrative with biting prose. This long-running series shows no sign of flagging * <b>Publishers Weekly Starred Review</b> of <b>Cutthroat Dogs</b> *

Loren D. Estleman is my hero * <b>Harlan Coben</b> * Superb . . . Everything feels fresh, as though we're meeting Amos and his Detroit for the first time * <b>Booklist</b> * Whatever your literary tastes, a shot of Amos Walker is always bracing . . . Hanging out with Walker offers limitless pleasures * <b>New York Times Book Review</b> * Superb . . . A top-shelf crime story * <b>Publishers Weekly Starred Review</b> of <b>Smoke on the Water</b> * Estleman is such an arrestingly imaginative writer . . . Estleman continues to demonstrate why he's at the top of his field * <b>Booklist</b> on <b>Smoke on the Water</b> * [A] superior whodunit . . . Fans of Chandler and Hammett will be thrilled * <b>Publishers Weekly Starred Review</b> of <b>City Walls</b> * Estleman's Amos Walker [is] a hard-boiled PI straight off Chandler's mean streets . . . Those who can't get enough of fast-talking PIs are in for a treat * <b>Booklist</b> on <b>Monkey in the Middle</b> * Razor-edged prose that Raymond Chandler would appreciate . . . The portrayal of the Motor City is as vivid as James Ellroy's L.A. Estleman makes sustaining a long-running series' high quality look easy * <b>Publishers Weekly Starred Review</b> of <b>Monkey in the Middle</b> * Reading a new Amos Walker novel is an act of pure joy: the writing is perfect, the story impeccably plotted, the resolution satisfying * <b>Booklist</b> on <b>Cutthroat Dogs</b> * Outstanding . . . Estleman makes old-school, dogged, hit-the-pavement sleuthing plausible, while peppering the narrative with biting prose. This long-running series shows no sign of flagging * <b>Publishers Weekly Starred Review</b> of <b>Cutthroat Dogs</b> *

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Master of the hard-boiled detective novel Loren D. Estleman is the critically acclaimed author of more than ninety novels, including mystery series featuring film detective Valentino, ex-hit man Peter Macklin, and Detroit-based PI Amos Walker. A former police-beat journalist, he is the recipient of twenty-eight national and international writing awards, including the Private Eye Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2002, Estleman was presented with an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from his alma mater, Eastern Michigan University. He lives in southeastern Michigan with his wife, author Deborah Morgan.

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