Brad Smith. Scribner, $12 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4516-4551-4
Smith (Busted Flush) eschews pyrotechnics in favor of character in this assured crime novel, the first in a new series set in upstate New York. When defense attorney Mickey Dupree is found in a sand trap at the Burr Oak Golf and Country Club, the...
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B. J. Smith, Author, Brad Smith, Author . Holt $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7217-4
Smith (One-Eyed Jacks) serves up a fast-paced, wickedly funny tale of revenge in his second novel (and U.S. debut), set in a close-knit farming community in Ontario. Ray Dokes, nearing 40, has just spent several years in prison for assaulting Sonny...
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Brad Smith, Author, B. J. Smith, Author . Holt $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7650-9
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Brad Smith
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Brad Smith. Scribner, $12 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4516-7853-6
In Smith’s outstanding sequel to Red Means Run, upstate New York farmer Virgil Cain lands a heavy metal cylinder while fishing in the Hudson. He secures the cylinder in his boat, which he puts on his trailer, then has lunch at the local roadhouse....
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Brad Smith. Scribner, $16 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4391-9756-1
The arrival of a highly dysfunctional Hollywood film crew spells trouble in Smith’s stellar third novel featuring laconic upstate New York farmer Virgil Cain (after 2012’s Crow’s Landing). The crew plan to shoot a major motion picture, Frontier...
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Brad Smith. Severn, $29.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8560-9
Carl Burns, the hero of this engrossing series launch from Smith (Shoot the Dog), returns after being released from prison to Rose City, Ontario, his hometown, where he hopes to improve his relationship with his grown daughter, Kate, whom he hasn’t...
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Brad Smith. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8579-1
Smith’s absorbing, if downbeat, second thriller featuring ex-con Carl Burns (after 2016’s Rough Justice) opens on a lovely autumn day at River Road Farm outside Talbotville, Ontario. Carl is working in the barn; Frances Rourke, Carl’s partner who...
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