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Things were quiet in Nameless' San Francisco agency, and his partner, Tamara, was itching to get back to work. A deadbeat father needed to be found, and Tamara needed to do some fieldwork, so she took off for his last known address. When Tamara goes missing, Nameless feels a sinking in his gut: A few years ago he had been kidnapped and left to die in a cabin in the woods, and something about Tamara's disappearance echoes too loudly. When he discovers the house she had investigated and sees the words taking us to a house in the wood scrawled on a wall, the echo becomes thunderous. Now it's a race against time, and Nameless is already late.

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The nightcrawlers have gotten the investigators' attention...and brought their evil right into the offices of the investigators, up close and all too personal. -- Mystery News There is no living writer whose work more faithfully embodies the spirit of classic private-eye fiction than Bill Pronzini's. It is class, classy noir storytelling. -- Cleveland Plain Dealer His novels are cerebral, not bloody. There is violence, but of a muted sort, and none of it is gratuitous...The Nameless Detective novels are a thinking reader's detective series. -- Chicago Sun-Times Pronzini constructs his sturdy plot with top-quality materials, including spit-polished dialogue and loathsome villains who actually giggle as they crack their victims' bones. -- New York Times Fast-paced...Pronzini handles the two main story lines and multiple, shifting points of view with aplomb while unsentimentally exploring violence against gays with understatement, righteous indignation, and genuine pathos...Pronzini just doesn't get better than this. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) [Nightcrawlers] packs enough grim drama and emotional traumas to go around...High-stakes, triple plot lines. -- Amazon.com, editorial review

There is no living writer whose work more faithfully embodies the spirit of classic private-eye fiction than Bill Pronzini's. It is class, classy noir storytelling. -- Cleveland Plain Dealer His novels are cerebral, not bloody. There is violence, but of a muted sort, and none of it is gratuitous...The Nameless Detective novels are a thinking reader's detective series. -- Chicago Sun-Times Fast-paced...Pronzini handles the two main story lines and multiple, shifting points of view with aplomb while unsentimentally exploring violence against gays with understatement, righteous indignation, and genuine pathos...Pronzini just doesn't get better than this. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) [Nightcrawlers] packs enough grim drama and emotional traumas to go around...High-stakes, triple plot lines. -- Amazon.com, editorial review The nightcrawlers have gotten the investigators' attention...and brought their evil right into the offices of the investigators, up close and all too personal. -- Mystery News Pronzini constructs his sturdy plot with top-quality materials, including spit-polished dialogue and loathsome villains who actually giggle as they crack their victims' bones. -- New York Times

[Nameless] is the classic private-eye hero pared down to the bone: He has no identity except for his detective work, into which he pours all his skills and soul. He is a remarkable creation.

[Nameless] is the classic private-eye hero pared down to the bone: He has no identity except for his detective work, into which he pours all his skills and soul. He is a remarkable creation. [Nameless] is the classic private-eye hero pared down to the bone: He has no identity except for his detective work, into which he pours all his skills and soul. He is a remarkable creation.

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Bill Pronzini has been nominated for or won every prize offered to crime fiction writers, including the 2008 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. It is no wonder, then, that Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine said of him: Complexity of characterization, puzzle, and theme support the case for Pronzini as the finest American detective novelist in current practice. He lives and writes in California with his wife, the crime novelist Marcia Muller. Nick Sullivan has narrated audiobooks for over twenty years and has recorded over four hundred titles. An Audie Award winner, he is also the recipient of numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards. His TV and film credits include The Good Wife, The Affair, Bull, Boardwalk Empire, 30 Rock, Our Idiot Brother, and Private Life.

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