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Troglodytes by Ed Lynskey6/26/2023 Despite a somewhat predictable resolution, the first-rate writing will leave readers eager to see more of Johnson.”– Publishers Weekly When the pair pursue the mystery with the local sheriff, a cascade of violence overwhelms the quiet community-murders that may be connected with a shadowy local racist cult known as the Blue Cheer. Johnson witnesses what appears to be a Stinger missile strike against an unmanned aerial drone hovering above his yard, and he calls on his closest local companion, Old Man Maddox, a retired CIA agent. Johnson has sought to still the memories of a deadly encounter with the Ku Klux Klan by retreating to the Appalachian town of Scarab, where people-and friends-are few and far between. “Set in the remote mountains of West Virginia, this gritty contemporary detective novel, Lynskey’s second to feature former PI Frank Johnson (after 2006’s The Dirt-Brown Derby), will remind many of such masters of hard-boiled prose as Loren Estleman. “A worthy heir to some of the pulp’s best ‘eyes’.” “A lovely & gritty, contemporary noir story.” “Stylistically ambitious w/nice narrative touches & observations.”
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