Days of Rage: A Smokey Dalton Novel - Softcover

Nelscott, Kris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615933890 ISBN 13: 9780615933894

Publisher: WMG Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

“Kris Nelscott can lay claim to the strongest series of detective novels now being written by an American author.” Salon

Chicago, 1969: The trial of eight protestors from the Democratic Convention the previous year has the whole world watching—and all of Chicagoland on edge.

Smokey Dalton feels the pressure: more cops on the streets, more FBI in his neighborhood. But when the landlord at one of Sturdy Investments’ South Side properties dies alone in his apartment, Smokey agrees to investigate. He finds old human bones in the basement, along with hints of more.

Smokey and his girlfriend, Sturdy’s CEO Laura Hathaway, worry that Laura’s father knew who used that basement and why. Without involving law enforcement, they decide to hold a thorough investigation and discover secrets they never ever imagined, secrets that could threaten Smokey, Laura, Sturdy, and one of Chicago’s greatest institutions. Secrets worth killing for.

 “When Kris Nelscott started her impressive series about Smokey Dalton..., many critics and readers wondered how long she could keep up the pace. Days of Rage, her sixth book in the Dalton series, indicates there seems to be no end in sight.” —Chicago Tribune

Read the whole gripping series:

A Dangerous Road, Book 1

Smoke-Filled Rooms, Book 2

Thin Walls, Book 3

Stone Cribs, Book 4

War at Home, Book 5

Days of Rage, Book 6

Street Justice, Book 7

Kris Nelscott is an open pen name used by New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch. 

The first Smokey Dalton novel, A Dangerous Road, won the Herodotus Award for Best Historical Mystery and was short-listed for the Edgar Award for Best Novel; the second, Smoke-Filled Rooms, was a PNBA Book Award finalist; and the third, Thin Walls, was one of the Chicago Tribune’s best mysteries of the year. Kirkus chose Days of Rage as one of the top ten mysteries of the year and it was also nominated for a Shamus award for The Best Private Eye Hardcover Novel of the Year. 

Entertainment Weekly says her equals are Walter Mosley and Raymond Chandler. Booklist calls the Smokey Dalton books “a high-class crime series” and Salon says “Kris Nelscott can lay claim to the strongest series of detective novels now being written by an American author.”

For more information about Kris Nelscott, or author Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s other works, please go to KrisNelscott.com or KristineKathrynRusch.com.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Praise for the Novels of Kris Nelscott
 
War at Home
"A gripping read . . . As with the best of Mosley and Chandler, Dalton's fifth outing leaves us eagerly anticipating the next one."
--Entertainment Weekly
 
"Nelscott excels at setting a scene, and her evocation of student unrest during that unsettled time is sharp and memorable."
--The Seattle Times
 
Stone Cribs
"Kris Nelscott can lay claim to the strongest series of detective novels now being written by an American author."
--Salon.com
 
Thin Walls
"A triumphant series . . . Gripping . . . Nelscott's books about Dalton have already been compared favorably to Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins series. The big difference is that Easy Rawlins has bought into the Los Angeles land-owning dream, while Smokey Dalton, a more militant avenging angel, mostly wants to stay alive and right the terrible wrongs he has seen."
--Chicago Tribune
 
Smoke-Filled Rooms 
"Nelscott brings it all back, and it's hair-raising."
--The Washington Post
 
"Superb . . . This series has all the passion and precision of Walter Mosley's early Easy Rawlins novels, but it is not derivative. Smokey just may be a more compelling character than the celebrated Easy."
--Booklist (starred review)
 
A Dangerous Road
"Nelscott has an absorbing story to tell, and she does it justice."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer

From the Inside Flap:

It’s 1969 and the city of Chicago is in turmoil. The celebrity trial of the Chicago Eight---charged with inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention---has begun. Protests abound over the trial and the conflict has caught the attention of everyone from the Black Panthers to city gangs to local trade unions.

Meanwhile, African-American P.I. Smokey Dalton and his adopted son, Jimmy, are keeping a low profile. They’ve been on the run from their native Memphis since Jimmy witnessed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., but have slowly settled into a steady life in Chicago. Smokey continues to accept cases and to inspect property for Sturdy Investments, the real-estate company owned by Laura Hathaway, his on-again, off-again girlfriend.
 
But the delicate balance in Smokey’s daily life is threatened when he makes a horrible discovery in a house he’s inspecting. Does what they’ve found have any connection to Laura’s business, and her father, who used to run it? Is it evidence of a long-ago killer, and if so, how has it remained buried for so long? Or is it something that could threaten Smokey---and Jimmy, and Laura---today? Smokey must answer all these questions before the truth about what he’s found is discovered by someone willing to kill to keep it secret, while the violent chaos surrounding “the trial of the century” whirls around them.

About this edition

• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0615933890
• ISBN 13: 9780615933894
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376