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Blue Lonesome, Bill Pronzini

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Blue Lonesome

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Bill Pronzini

For months, a man watches a lonely woman eat in a San Francisco cafe and when she commits suicide he investigates. The probe leads him to the murder of her husband and daughter for which a Nevada town holds her responsibleA haunted woman & rsquo;s suicide pulls a California man into the poisonous secrets of a bleak Nevada desert town in Bill Pronzini & rsquo;s masterful work of noir fiction, which was named a New York Times Notable Book There is something about the sad woman eating alone night after night at the Harmony Caf & eacute; that intrigues San Francisco CPA Jim Messenger. Unfulfilled himself, Jim feels a kinship with her & mdash;and later, when she commits suicide, he resolves to find out why. His search leads him to Beulah, a middle-of-nowhere mining town in the Nevada desert, where hatreds run deep, where secrets are as venomous as a rattlesnake bite, and where a stranger asking too many questions might inexplicably disappear. Still, in this dusty, barren landscape, Jim feels completely alive. And he & rsquo;s not going anywhere until he uncovers the truth, even if it rips the whole town apart. Richly atmospheric and peopled with achingly human characters, Blue Lonesome is a crime novel as tense and coiled as a rattler ready to strike and as dark and hypnotic as the lonesome desert night

Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Epigraph; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25; About the Author; Copyright