Devil with a Gun: A Dixie Flynn Mystery

In Grant’s chilling second Dixie Flynn mystery (after 2012’s Angel with a Bullet), San Francisco reporter Dixie Flynn sets out to write a Father’s Day feature that involves her in a missing person’s case. Twenty years earlier, when hairdresser Bailey Brown was five, her father, Joe, disappeared after coming into her bedroom one night with a menacing stranger. Now Bailey wants to find out what happened to Joe and bring some closure for herself and her younger sister, Roxanne, both of whom have suffered psychological damage as a result of their father’s absence. Dixie’s audacious digging into the past soon brings her the unwelcome attention of Russian mob boss Krasnyi Lebed. As the body count rises, Bailey and Roxanne realize that the emotional price of finding the answers they seek may be too high. (Oct.)