“Top 25 Mystery Novels of 2022” —The Strand Magazine
“Chambers makes the smell and harrowing vibe of the mean streets
of the nation’s capital come alive.” —Publishers Weekly
Dickie Cornish, Washington, DC street denizen turned unlicensed
private investigator, is forced at gunpoint to track down the
daughter of an ex-con, setting up a chain of events that unleashes
a war within the corrupt police force, exposes shocking conduct in
child services, and unearths a secret that threatens to tear the
nation’s capital apart. The second book in the Dickie
Cornish mystery series, STANDALONE is a must-read for fans of S. A.
Cosby, George Pelecanos, and Joe Ide. It’s been over year since
that bleak Christmas when a rich man peeled homeless, drug-addled
Dickie Cornish from a steam grate, cleaned him up, and convinced
him to use his street connections to track down his missing
property. Now, as the summer sun bakes those same mean streets, the
air is thick with crime, contagion, corruption. Dickie struggles
with sobriety, anti-psychotic meds, and counseling at the VA, but
manages to make a meager living as a private investigator with his
sidekick, “Stripe”—until an ex-con named Al-Mayadeen Thomas
sticks a gun to Dickie’s forehead and kidnaps him to a grim
flophouse—a motel filled with squatters more desperate than the
poor souls in the shelters. Thomas demands that Dickie find
his daughter, missing for years from the motel in a notorious cold
case. The other squatters plead for him to find their vanished
children as well. Thomas takes his own life to seal Dickie’s
help, Police Chief Linda Figgis hauls Dickie in, gives him a
Faustian choice: she directs him to help her close the Thomas cold
case, but only if he forgets about the other vanished and abused
children. To his horror, Dickie finds himself in the middle of a
war within the police, with either side closing in for the kill to
keep the truth hidden.
General
| Imprint: |
Three Rooms Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
November 2022 |
| Authors: |
Christopher Chambers
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| Dimensions: |
209 x 139 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
336 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-953103-23-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-953103-23-5 |
| Barcode: |
9781953103239 |
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