The Painted Gun

Synopsis

2018 Shamus Award Finalist: A &“tricky and delightfully surprising crime novel&” set at the dawn of the digital age in San Francisco (Publishers Weekly).It&’s 1997, and the dotcom boom is going strong in San Francisco. But ex-journalist and struggling alcoholic David &“Itchy&” Crane's fledgling &“information consultancy&” business is getting slowly buried by bad luck, bad decisions, and the growing presence of the Internet. Before he can completely self-destruct, a private investigator offers him fifty grand to find a missing girl named Ashley. Crane takes the job because the money&’s right and because the only clue to her disappearance is a dead-on oil portrait of Crane himself—painted by the mysterious missing girl whom he has never met.As Crane&’s search for Ashley becomes an obsession, he stumbles upon a series of murders, for which he begins to fear he's being framed...&“Spinelli deftly segues from one genre to another—from hard-boiled noir to paranoid thriller, puzzle mystery (with each and every riddle logically explained), spy caper, and ultimately to something evocative of Bogart and Bacall. Spinelli is definitely a talent to watch.&”—Publishers Weekly&“A neat little post-modern mash-up of Chandler and Hammett...[Spinelli&’s] got wit and style up the wazoo.&”—Thrilling Detective &“The Painted Gun is hardboiled like they don&’t make anymore. Whiplash twists, razor-sharp prose, an addictive narrative—I couldn&’t read it fast enough.&”—Rob Hart, author of The Warehouse

Copyright:

2017

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

272 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781617755057

Related ISBNs:

9781617754982

Publisher:

Akashic Books

Date of Addition:

01/17/25

Copyrighted By:

Bradley Spinelli

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

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