A New York Times Notable Book: A womanâs suicide leads a man to a Nevada mining townâand a nest of poisonous secretsâin this âtop-notch thrillerâ (Publishers Weekly).
There is something about the sad woman eating alone night after night at the Harmony CafÃĐ that intrigues San Francisco CPA Jim Messenger. Unfulfilled himself, Jim feels a kinship with herâand later, when she commits suicide, he resolves to find out why. His search leads him to Beulah, a middle-of-nowhere mining town in the Nevada desert, where hatreds run deep, where secrets are as venomous as a rattlesnake bite, and where a stranger asking too many questions might inexplicably disappear. Still, in this dusty, barren landscape, Jim feels completely alive. And heâs not going anywhere until he uncovers the truth, even if it rips the whole town apart.
Richly atmospheric and peopled with achingly human characters, Blue Lonesome is a crime novel as tense and coiled as a rattler ready to strike and as dark and hypnotic as the lonesome desert night.
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