Cutthroat Dogs: An Amos Walker Mystery

by Loren D. Estleman

Overview

Cut-Throat Dogs is a new Amos Walker novel from a Grand Master. “Loren D. Estleman is my hero.”—Harlan Coben

“Someone is dead who shouldn’t be, and the wrong man is in prison.”

Nearly twenty years ago, college freshman April Goss was found dead in her bathtub, an apparent suicide, but suspicion soon fell on her boyfriend. Dan Corbeil was convicted of her murder and sent to prison. Case closed.

Or is it?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250258656
Publisher:	Tor Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/04/2022
Series:	Amos Walker Series , #29
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

LOREN D. ESTLEMAN has written more than eighty books—historical novels, mysteries, and westerns—including the Amos Walker, Page Murdock, and Peter Macklin series. The winner of four Shamus Awards, five Spur Awards, and three Western Heritage Awards, he lives in Central Michigan with his wife, author Deborah Morgan.

Editorial Reviews

★ 07/26/2021

In Edgar finalist Estleman’s outstanding 29th hard-boiled mystery featuring Detroit PI Amos Walker (after 2019’s When Old Midnight Comes Along), Walker chances into a cold case investigation after thwarting a would-be thief who pulled a gun on a bank teller. Chrys Corbeil, the grateful teller, hires him to help her brother, Dan Corbeil, who’s been incarcerated for decades for murder. April Goss, a college student, was found in her bloody bathtub with both wrists slashed. The initial conclusion of suicide was reversed when the police noted a suspicious absence of fingerprints in the apartment, and Goss’s boyfriend, Dan, who was supposedly motivated to kill her because of his discovery that she was pregnant, was charged and convicted. Evidence that Goss wasn’t pregnant was kept from the jury. Walker soon finds his reopening of the murder case opposed both by the victim’s powerful father, the host of a hit true crime TV series called Cutthroat Dogs, and by Dan himself. Estleman makes old-school, dogged, hit-the-pavement sleuthing plausible, while peppering the narrative with biting prose. This long-running series shows no sign of flagging. Agent: Dominick Abel, Dominick Abel Literary. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

" ...Something of a classic. ...Unapologetically retro. Nobody does old-school, hardboiled dick like Estleman. He's Hammett-hard, and Chandler-smart-ass, with the world weariness locked right in." —Mystery Scene Magazine

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