Big Brash Year Ahead

Published: Wed, 01/05/22

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Hi ,

Happy New Year!!

2022 is here and we have an exciting line-up of new, never-before-published crime fiction coming your way in the coming months, including Keith Bruton's stunning debut novel THE LEMON MAN and Michael Craft's witty, sophisticated mystery DESERT GETAWAY.

TASKS:

1. Buy Food. 2. Visit Ma. 3. Kill Henry O'Neil

THE LEMON MAN is Patrick Callen, a bicycle-riding hitman with mild O.C.D. in Dublin, Ireland whose carefully ordered life is totally upended when he becomes the accidental caretaker of a baby boy. Now he's got to balance his daily to-do list of errands and murders-for-hire with his unexpected domesticity, which impacts him and his work in ways he never expected...and that could get him killed.

"The Lemon Man is a fine crime novel: at one moment offbeat, with a darkly funny Irish lilt, and the next moment hard and uncompromising."
—Garry Disher, three time Ned Kelly Award winning author of the Wyatt series

Michael Craft's DESERT GETAWAY began as a stand-out short-story in the acclaimed anthology PALM SPRINGS NOIR.

Dante O’Donnell is white, gay and getting older every day. He has wasted his better years on starstruck dreams and the wrong men, so now he's working as a concierge for a vacation-rental outfit in Palm Springs, where the guests have far more baggage than what's packed in their suitcases. But when he finds a dead body floating in the swimming pool at one of his rentals, his own troubled past comes back to haunt him. So he turns for help to Jazz Friendly, a Black woman who, when she was a Palm Springs cop, nearly arrested him for murdering his husband, which he didn't do...not that he knows who did. Now Jazz is a struggling PI, her career derailed by racism. And with her marriage broken by booze, she's desperate to get custody of her kid. Dante and Jazz need each other to solve this murder... and to save themselves from personal and professional disaster.

"A quick-witted, entertaining mystery loaded with Palm Springs atmosphere. Smart, sophisticated, and ingeniously plotted. I loved it."
—Ellen Byron, USA Today bestselling author of the Cajun Country Mysteries

You can look forward to adding both of these terrific crime novels to your stack of summer beach reads. We've also got some incredible reprints of beloved, currently "hard to find" out-of-print, crime novels coming your way in 2022...more on those in a few weeks. In the meantime, stay safe, stay well, and stay brash.

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