Michael Simon, Author . Viking $23.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-670-03319-5
Three grisly deaths kick off Simon's fiction debut, a stylish noir thriller set in Austin, Tex., in 1988. A prostitute named Nikki, well past her glorious prime, is suffocated; politically active college student Rick Schate is crushed by a city...
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Michael Simon, Author . Viking $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-03443-7
In Simon's worthy sequel to his debut thriller, Dirty Sally
(2004), Dan Reles, the only Jewish detective on the Austin, Tex., police force, is on the trail of the would-be assailant of Virginia Key, a black community activist. The assassin...
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Michael Simon, Author . Viking $23.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-670-03790-2
The death of innocence lends a bittersweet tone to Simon's third crime novel (after 2005's Body Scissors
) to feature Dan Reles, a world-weary, middle-aged Austin, Tex., homicide detective who sees himself as a "six-foot, New York-born,...
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