Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during December 2015 is …
The Red Storm by Grant Bywaters, a William Fletcher Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Winner of the 2014 Minotaur Books/Private Eye Writers of America Best First Private Eye Novel Competition, introducing a black ex-boxer P.I. working in 1930s New Orleans.
Newly-minted private investigator William Fletcher is having trouble finding clientele. He's not the only man out of work, but his past as a former heavyweight contender with a few shady connections-not to mention the color of his skin in race-obsessed New Orleans-isn't helping lure clients to his door. Stuck without any viable alternative, he takes a case from an old criminal acquaintance, Storm. His only client assures him that the job is simple-locate his missing estranged daughter, Zelda, no questions asked.
But when Fletcher starts knocking on doors, he sets off a catastrophic chain of events that turn the city into a bloody battleground between two rival syndicates. Then Storm is murdered and Fletcher finds himself caught between the police and dangerous mobsters. With Zelda's safety in the balance, the unlikely private detective finds himself with a lot more than he bargained for.
— The Red Storm by Grant Bywaters
For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for December 2015. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of December 2015 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.
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