Priors

The private eyes you read about in books are extinct. The demand is no longer there, the cases no longer exciting, the job no longer what you always imagined it to be, and maybe never was at all. Joe Iocca, an undistinguished veteran P.I., hadn't seen a new client walk through his doors in several months. So when his former clients start appearing, asking him to solve their cases as if he never had, the fact that they haven't aged a day is worth investigating. In the tumult of his mysterious circumstances, Joe stumbles into a cold case homicide. Little Girl is out to find her father's real killer. Lewis wants the same thing, his dad having done thirty-three years for the murder that everyone is sure he didn't commit. There were always plenty of other suspects to pick from, but none of them were black men like Lewis's old man.Set in 1970's Missouri and present day California, Priors is meta-detective-fiction in the mold of Paul Auster's "The New York Trilogy." Like a heady Elmore Leonard story, it seamlessly blends the classic who-done-it crime novel with oddball comedy, insightful character-study, true depth and surprising heart. Fans of crime stories, noir and literary fiction alike will enjoy this genre-bending debut novel.

• | Author: Francis Verlaine
• | Publisher: Double Nickels Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 15, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 334 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0578409062
• | ISBN-13: 9780578409061