Poor Dead Cricket

She had the files. She had a plan. Now she’s dead—and everyone’s lying about why.

Cricket Dawes had proof—names, dates, dossiers—pointing to something rotten inside a billion-dollar energy operation. The night she planned to go public, she turned up dead in a parking lot.

The cops say it was a mugging. The press lost interest fast.

Jim Winchester, the fast-talking head of a local activist group, thinks otherwise. He hires Rafferty to find out what really happened to Cricket—and, more importantly, to find the files she stole.

But Rafferty doesn’t like Winchester, doesn’t trust his story—and the deeper he digs, the worse it smells.

From dirty money to missing evidence, from shady suits to street-level threats, Rafferty’s chasing a killer who’s buried their tracks beneath layers of lies. But Cricket deserves justice. And Rafferty? He’s not the kind of guy who lets a murder slide.

Hardboiled, fast-paced, and packed with sharp dialogue, Poor Dead Cricket is the third novel in the Shamus Award-winning Rafferty P.I. series. Fans of Spenser, Reacher, and Elvis Cole—step into Rafferty’s world today.