The Dread Line

DeSilva, Bruce

ISBN 10: 0765374331 / ISBN 13: 9780765374332

Published by Forge, NY, 2016

About this Item

Near fine in a near fine Dust Jacket with a small stain to blind side of front panel. First printing SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. The fifth Liam Mulligan mystery.

Seller Inventory # 151192

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Dread Line
• Publisher: Forge, NY
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0765374331
• ISBN 13: 9780765374332
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

The Dread Line: the latest Liam Mulligan novel from award winning author Bruce DeSilva.

Since he got fired in spectacular fashion from his newspaper job last year, former investigative reporter Liam Mulligan has been piecing together a new life--one that straddles both sides of the law. He's getting some part-time work with his friend McCracken's detective agency. He's picking up beer money by freelancing for a local news website. And he's looking after his semi-retired mobster-friend's bookmaking business.

But Mulligan still manages to find trouble. He's feuding with a cat that keeps leaving its kills on his porch. He's obsessed with a baffling jewelry heist. And he's enraged that someone in town is torturing animals. All this keeps distracting him from a big case that needs his full attention. The New England Patriots, shaken by a series of murder charges against a star player, have hired Mulligan and McCracken to investigate the background of a college athlete they're thinking of drafting. At first, the job seems routine, but as soon as they begin asking questions, they get push-back. The player, it seems, has something to hide--and someone is willing to kill to make sure it remains secret.

About the Author

Bruce DeSilva grew up in a tiny Massachusetts mill town where the mill closed when he was ten, and where metaphors and alliteration were always in short supply. Nevertheless, his crime fiction has won the Edgar and MaCavity Awards, been listed as a finalist for the Shamus, Anthony and Barry Awards, and been published in ten foreign languages.His short stories have appeared in Akashic Press's noir anthologies, and he has reviewed books for The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Publishers Weekly, and The Associated Press. Previously, he was a journalist for forty years, most recently as world-wide writing coach for the Associated Press, editing stories that won every major journalism prize including the Pulitzer.