Stephen Mack Jones: Lives Laid Away
This book came out around the time we closed the store and I didn’t read it at the time, being deep into comfort re-reading of Agatha Christie and Patricia Wentworth. However I thought the first book, August Snow, was wonderful and a great and much needed injection of diversity and vitality to the private eye genre. This second book is even better, more intense and focused. I recently interviewed Stephen who mentioned Robert B. Parker as an influence, and I can sure see it in this tight, funny, fast moving story.