In Solo Time
Bar owner Elder Darrow shakes up Bostonâs crime scene. âAtmospheric and dark . . . This killer of a reading ride will entertain and haunt you.ââGayle Lynds, New York Times bestselling author At the urging of his sometimes lover and sometimes drin...
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Bar owner Elder Darrow shakes up Bostonâs crime scene. âAtmospheric and dark . . . This killer of a reading ride will entertain and haunt you.ââGayle Lynds, New York Times bestselling author At the urging of his sometimes lover and sometimes drinking partner Jacquie Robillard, Elder Darrow uses the last of the money from the trust fund his mother left him to buy the Esposito, a bucket-of-blood bar in Boston that he plans to turn into a jazz nightclub. But before he can turn the place around, the body of jazz guitar player Timmy McGuire shows up on the small stage at the Esposito, stabbed to death. Because she had a contentious relationship with the musician, Jacquie is arrested for Timmy McGuireâs murder. But Elder is certain something darker and deeper than a loverâs quarrel is at stake. And when Jacquie is released on bailâand turns up deadâElder is drawn into a mystery going back to Timmyâs childhood, an arson in the three-decker in Mattapan where he grew up, and the unraveling of a political conspiracy in âa dark bluesy mystery steeped in Bostonian tradition and proseâ (Bruce Robert Coffin, bestselling author of the Detective Byron Mysteries). âRichard Cass writes the kind of mysteries I first fell in love withâclever, twisty, and brimming with characters as colorful as they are well-drawn.ââChris Holm, Anthony Award-winning author of Michael Hendricks Novels âCassâs version of noir Boston is dark and beautiful as a back alley after a morning rain.ââGerry Boyle, author of the Jack McMorrow Mysteries
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