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Synopsis
'There is a lot to like in Womack's hardboiled murder mystery - an engaging sleuth, a convincing setting, a passel of folks to distrust, and some good minor characters.' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'Harry has something that cuts him out from the rest of the herd.' - NEW YORK TIMES Nashville Private investigator Harry James Denton is hired by Betty Jameson, the daughter of the revered General Breckenridge Jameson, to find her sister, Stacey. The only lead is Stacey's last known boyfriend - a lowlife called Red Dog who works at a nude dance club. Finally tracking him down at the Club Exotique, Harry is helped in his investigation by Ginger, a young stripper from the club. Harry's girlfriend, Dr Marsha Helms, can only put up with so much though, and as Harry is drawn into the hypnotic, sleazy underworld of the sex industry, loyalties are sorely tested...
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From the Publisher
Steven Womack -- like his protagonist Harry James Denton -- is truly one of a kind. I recall being seated next to Steve at my very first Edgar Awards banquet and noting the white tux (w/ tails!) he wore with complete confidence. He deserved to feel right at home among his writing peers. Steve's first Nashville-set novel about Harry Denton (DEAD FOLKS' BLUES) had won an Edgar a few years earlier. And his recent MURDER MANUAL is worthy of another Edgar!
However, my favorite Steven Womack novel may be CHAIN OF FOOLS. CHAIN OF FOOLS details the darker side of Nashville: runaway teens, seedy strip clubs, drug dealers, and a vicious murderer hunting the young lady Harry Denton is sent to find and protect. It's hardly a cozy, but Denton's humanity shines through the bleak chaos. If you like your mysteries dark and dangerous, CHAIN OF FOOLS will not disappoint.
--Patrick Price, Senior Publicist
From the Inside Flap
FOOLS RUSH IN. . .
I'd done some crazy stuff off-and-on the last couple of years. My life had gone off in some weird directions. But nothing could match yanking a stoned, naked, sick seventeen-year-old girl out of a murder scene and sneaking her off under the nose of the police.
Harry James Denton is no fool. But his search for a rich runaway teen, Stacey Jameson, takes him to the seamy and very wild side of Nashville. Nobody's chain lays straight, a friend tells Harry. But Stacey's is especially twisted, with links that lead back to a family filled with secrets. Even a hardboiled P.I. like Harry isn't prepared for what awaits him in the depths of hard-core hell, where only he can save a lost girl before she destroys herself or lets a ruthless murderer do it for her.
"Steven Womack has done for male private eye fiction what Grafton and Paretsky did for women operatives in the Eighties, and if you haven't heard of him yet, you will."
--Mostly Murder
From the Paperback edition.
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