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Minotaur Books
November 2006
On Sale: October 31, 2006
272 pages
ISBN: 0312997957
EAN: 9780312997953
Paperback (reprint)
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Mystery Police Procedural
The aging riverboat casinos and decrepit cut-rate hotels
that line the dark waters running through downtown Booth
City reveal the seething underbelly of a Midwestern city
down on its luck. Booth is filled with a collection of
lonely souls looking for one last shot at happiness in
what seems the most unlikely place on earth. Instead
they're trapped in a never-ending cycle of false hope and
true despair, temporary sobriety and permanent desolation. Two of these souls, homicide cops Eliza Ochoa and Ike
Horner, are on the scene of a body dump in a downtown
park, crouching over the freezing corpse of another dead
working girl. She's been cut up in all the most delicate
places, and so it's perhaps understandable that Ike and
Eliza at first miss the most telling part of this routine
Booth City morning: she isn't actually female. As the two detectives go over the last days of a young
prostitute's life, pushed more by dogged determination
than any super sleuthing powers, the facts lead them deep
into a quickly unraveling conspiracy that stretches from
the darkest holes in Booth to the fringes of its most
influential families. As the investigation hurtles toward
its violent and startling conclusion, Ike and Eliza remain
intent on proving, perhaps only to themselves and at great
personal cost, that justice is indeed possible in Booth
City.
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