The Girl Who Cried Blood Tears: A Jimmy Riley Noir Msytery Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781947606111)

In late 1943, Miki Matsumoto, a beautiful Japanese teenager who has been in hiding since escaping from an internment camp, is working as Riley's secretary in gratitude for his rescuing her from a vicious kidnapper. Miki's sinister uncle threatens to kill the gumshoe and his girlfriend, Lauren Lewis, unless they disclose Miki's location. Meanwhile, a boxing manager hires Riley and his best friend Clip to protect Fighting Freddy Freeman, whose life has been threatened on the eve of a bout that could land him a chance to take on heavyweight champ Joe Louis. THE GIRL WHO CRIED BLOOD TEARS, a Jimmy Riley Noir Novel from award-winning and bestselling author Michael Lister "Lister's hard-edged prose ranks with the best of contemporary noir fiction." Publisher's Weekly Starred Review. Walk the mean streets of wartime Panama City with Jimmy Riley, a wounded, woman-haunted knight errant in Michael Lister's resonant new noir series Publisher's Weekly calls "a promising private detective series set in 1940s Florida," and Library Journal says "peppered with snappy dialog, this hard-boiled mystery by award winner Lister is a swell read." "Michael Lister has the world of Florida Panhandle noir all to himself. Tough, violent, and hard-boiled, This novel of obsession and suspense will remind you of Raymond Chandler, Graham Greene, and why you started reading crime novels in the first place." John Dufresne

Author: Michael Lister
ISBN-10: 1947606115
ISBN-13: 9781947606111
Publisher: Pulpwood Press
Language: English
Published: 05/02/2018
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.48d