Jitter Joint: A Novel of Suspense

by Howard Swindle

Overview

In Jitter Joint, award-winning journalist Howard Swindle delivers Jeb Quinlin, a Dallas homicide detective combating crime-and his own personal demons.

"The weak and pitiful shall perish..."

Jeb Quinlin has been issued an ultimatum by his boss and his wife: dry out or get out. So he hits his favorite bar for a last fifth of Wild Turkey and reluctantly enters detox. Once inside, Jeb is forced to confront his years of alcoholism with the help of Librium, hard-core therapy, and AA meetings. But someone is taking the words of the Big Book too far, as rehab patients begin to die mysteriously, each tagged with one of AA's Twelve Steps. Now Jeb is on a sobering hunt for the Twelve-Step killer, a twisted psychopath who's taking the battle with the bottle to horrifying new heights...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781429981392
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/01/2007
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Howard Swindle is a Pulitzer Prize-winning news editor for the Dallas Morning News and the author of three true-crime books, including Edgar-nominated Trespasses: Portrait of a Serial Rapist. Jitter Joint is his first novel. He lives in Dallas, Texas.

Howard Swindle is an Edgar-nominated true crime writer and a Pulitzer-Prize-winning editor for the Dallas Morning-News. His acclaimed first novel, Jitter Joint, also featured Dallas Homicide Detective Jeb Quinlin. Swindle lives near Dallas, Texas, with his wife and family.