In Loren D. Estleman's latest hard-boiled mystery, Detroit PI Amos Walker faces his most perplexing case yet when a dying madam's final request ensnares him in a web of murder spanning five decades.

Amos Walker, the quintessential noir detective, has made a lot of friends--and a few enemies--in his years on the Detroit crime scene. But he's never encountered a case as troubling as when he agrees to fulfill the death-bed wish of Beryl Garnet, a former madam. She asks Walker to locate her long-lost son and ensure he receives her ashes when she's gone.

Walker tracks down Garnet's son in Canada, where he fled as a Vietnam War protester in the 1960s. But shortly after this melancholy reunion, the son is found dead, with Walker the prime suspect in his murder. To clear his name and uncover the truth, Walker must delve into another shocking crime: the decades-old murder of Curtis Smallwood, a boxer who also happens to be the dead man's father.

As Walker navigates the dark underbelly of the past, he finds himself entangled in a mystery where two murders, committed 53 years apart, were inexplicably carried out with the same gun--in a place where the weapon couldn't possibly have been. With Retro, Loren D. Estleman delivers a suspenseful and intricate crime thriller, masterfully weaving together the threads of a haunting mystery that spans generations.

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Praise for this book

“Reading a new Amos Walker adventure is like settling down and listening to an old, reliably entertaining friend.” —Publishers Weekly

“Loren D. Estleman makes his strongest stand for the pure, unvarnished glory of the classic American private eye in Retro.” —The New York Times




About the Author

Loren D. Estleman was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a BA degree in English Literature and Journalism in 1974. In 2002, the university awarded him an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters for his contribution to American literature.

He is the author of more than fifty novels in the categories of mystery, historical western, and mainstream, and has received four Western Writers of American Golden Spur Awards, three Western Heritage Awards, and three Shamus Awards. He has been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Britain's Silver Dagger, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. In 2003, the mammoth Encyclopedia of Detective Fiction named him the most critically acclaimed writer of U.S. detective


Title: Retro : An Amos Walker Novel
Author(s): Loren D. Estleman
Series: Amos Walker Novels
Volume: 17
ISBN: 9781429911818
Copyright 2007
Release Date: April 01, 2007
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Countries: United States, Canada | Learn more about available countries
Language: English
Format: mobi,ePub | Learn More about our supported formats
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