Fire Lake - Hardcover

Valin, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385295898 ISBN 13: 9780385295895

Publisher: Delacorte Press, 1987

Synopsis

When a friend from college becomes involved in a murder, Cincinnati private investigator Harry Stoner must venture into the treacherous drug underworld--and his own past--to uncover the mystery

About this title

About the Author:

Jonathan Valin is a mystery author best known for the Harry Stoner detective series. He won the Shamus Award for best mystery novel of 1989. After writing eleven Harry Stoner novels over a fourteen-year period, he took a break from mystery writing to help found Fi, a magazine of music criticism. He now works as an editor and reviewer for magazines.

From Publishers Weekly:

This seventh Harry Stoner mystery (after Life's Work begins when the Cincinnati detective gets a 2:00 a.m. phone call and learns that an old friend, Lonnie "Jack" Jackowski, has signed into a local motel under Harry's name and attempted suicide. Harry rescues Lonnie, who regains consciousness only long enough to ask Harry not to take him to the hospital. Discovering that Lonnie has a family in St. Louis, Harry asks Lonnie's wife Karen to fly out and take her husband home. Returning from the airport, they find Harry's apartment ransacked and Lonnie gone. The rest of the novel is an attempt to locate Lonnie and to discover what he was doing in Cincinnati in the first place. The tale is a lurid one but artfully told, involving junkies, pushers, teenage girls, bikers, yuppies, psychotic cops and a lot of people trying to come to terms with their pasts. Lonnie is more than just a missing person, he's a symbol of the '60s, and everyone who comes in contact with him ends up trying to justify past behavior. Although the ending is abrupt and leaves many questions unanswered, Valin's prose is spare and at times chilling, the plot is complex yet coherent, and Cincinnati emerges as a city with a vibrant and distinctive personality.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0385295898
• ISBN 13: 9780385295895
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254