Way Past Dead (MUSIC CITY MURDERS: The Harry James Denton Series) - Softcover

Womack, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1732189927 ISBN 13: 9781732189928

Publisher: Spearhead Press, 2018

Synopsis

Hearts Aren't The Only Thing Broken In The World Of Country Music...

Music City P.I. Harry James Denton has a deep, dark secret that's dangerous to admit in Nashvegas...

He's not a huge fan of country music.

But when rising country music star Rebecca Gibson is found beaten to death, a heap of damning evidence points to her ex-husband and Harry's pal, Slim Gibson.

Short of cash, as always, Harry digs into the case and discovers the dark history of a marriage made somewhere way south of Heaven, somewhere deep in the cutthroat heart of the country music business, where deceit, betrayal, passion and vengeance are not only sung about... they're lived and died.

And because nothing in Harry's life is ever simple or easy, he's also got another situation to deal with. His girlfriend--who's also the Music City coroner--is being held hostage by a group of whacko cult religious fanatics in armed Winnebagos who don't want the body of their leader's wife autopsied.

For Harry James Denton, it's just one damn thing after another in this nail-biting, page-turning thriller that's the next installment in Steven Womack's award-winning, best-selling Music City Murders series. Nominated for the PWA Shamus Award, Way Past Dead will grab you and take you through so many twists and turns you won't be able to put it down until the last page.

You'll love Womack's writing. Readers have compared him to John D. MacDonald, only with a meat n' three-sized dose of smart-ass on steroids.

"A deft, atmosphere-rich novel: smart, funny, and filled with a sense of wry heartbreak. Steven Womack's Nashville stands out..."
---James Ellroy, New York Times bestselling author of L.A. Confidential

About this title

About the Author

Steven Womack began his first novel when he was eighteen-years-old. A short eighteen years later, he finally sold one. His first published novel, MURPHY'S FAULT, was the only debut mystery on the 1990 New York Times Notable Book List. Since then, he has published ten more novels, winning both the Edgar and Shamus Awards, as well as receiving multiple nominations for major mystery awards. His Edgar and Shamus Award-winning Harry James Denton series--Dead Folks' Blues, Torch Town Boogie, Way Past Dead, Nobody's Chain Lays Straight, A Manual Of Murder and Dirty Money--has been republished by Spearhead Press. A scriptwriter as well, Womack co-wrote the screenplays for Proudheart,, which was nominated for the CableAce Award, and Volcano: Fire On The Mountain, an ABC television movie that was one of the most-watched television movies of the year.

Review

"As an exotic setting for a regional mystery series, Nashville's got it all. For the local color alone, Steven Womack's Way Past Dead is a real hoot."--The New York Times

"Way Past Dead has action and mystery enough to keep the reader eagerly turning pages all night long." -- Southern Book Trade

"The third Denton mystery is a little jewel. Denton is a Rockford-like private eye who'd like to avoid danger but has just enough integrity to follow his cases through to the end." --Booklist

Edition details

• Publisher: Spearhead Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1732189927
• ISBN 13: 9781732189928
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 442