Hard Cash Valley

By Brian Panowich

Book Overview

MARILYN STASIO, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW - ONE OF THE 10 BEST CRIME NOVELS OF THE YEAR

The plotting is skilled, as is the sleuthing, and the landscape is stunning. But it's the hard-jawed characters, with their tough talk and scarred souls, who really get under your skin." -- Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

Return to McFalls County and Bull Mountain in Hard Cash Valley, where Brian Panowich weaves another masterful tale of Southern Noir.

Dane Kirby is a broken man and no stranger to tragedy. As a life-long resident and ex-arson investigator for McFalls County, Dane has lived his life in one of the most chaotic and crime-ridden regions of the south. When he gets called in to consult on a brutal murder in a Jacksonville, Florida, motel room, he and his FBI counterpart, Special Agent Roselita Velasquez, begin an investigation that leads them back to the criminal circles of his own backyard.

Arnie Blackwell's murder in Jacksonville is only the beginning - and Dane and Roselita seem to be one step behind. For someone is hacking a bloody trail throughout the Southeast looking for Arnie's younger brother, a boy with Asperger's Syndrome who possesses an unusual skill with numbers that could make a lot of money and that has already gotten a lot of people killed--and has even more of the deadliest people alive willing to do anything it takes to exploit him.

As Dane joins in the hunt to find the boy, it swiftly becomes a race against the clock that has Dane entangled in a web of secrets involving everyone from the Filipino Mafia to distrusting federal agents to some of hardest southern outlaws he's ever known.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250206928
• ISBN13: 9781250206923
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Great book

Loved it ! We live in Jax and I was like this is cool. Great story line and I love it.

Hard Cash Valley: A Wild Ride

Hard Cash Valley is an intense and graphic tale of murder and revenge. The book immediately reels you in with a riveting scene as you try to figure out what on earth is happening. Well written but occasionally bordering on rambling, I truly enjoyed this book. With all of the intricacies, this may be one of the few that I actually re-read.