Man One (Main)

Loren D Estleman

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Man One (Main)

Man One (Main)

Loren D Estleman

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Hard-boiled Private Investigator Amos Walker races to save a beautiful widow in the latest mystery from Loren D. Estleman--master of the noir PI novel and recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award.

"Loren D. Estleman is my hero"--Harlan Coben

"Hanging out with Walker offers limitless pleasures"--NYT Book Review

"Reading a new Amos Walker novel is an act of pure joy"--Booklist

Young widow Sage Holland doesn't look like a murderer--and that's because she isn't one. The beautiful dame has driven non-stop from her home in frozen Alaska to seek out the services of private investigator Amos Walker, bringing not just the ice and snow with her. Sage has a stalker: her late husband's vengeful brother, who's determined to make her pay for a crime she didn't commit. Someone killed David, but it wasn't her.

Walker is no fool. He knows not to take the words of husky-voiced, sorrowful women at face value. But Sage is in sore need of protection, and Walker's hunt for clues on Detroit's wintry streets soon leads to far more dead bodies than expected. He'll have to use every trick he's learned if he's to keep not just his client's blood, but also his own from staining the snow.

Critical Reviews

Superb . . . Everything feels fresh, as though we're meeting Amos and his Detroit for the first time-- "Booklist"

Loren D. Estleman is my hero-- "Harlan Coben"

Whatever your literary tastes, a shot of Amos Walker is always bracing . . . Hanging out with Walker offers limitless pleasures-- "New York Times Book Review"

Superb . . . A top-shelf crime story-- "Publishers Weekly Starred Review of Smoke on the Water"

Estleman is such an arrestingly imaginative writer . . . Estleman continues to demonstrate why he's at the top of his field-- "Booklist on Smoke on the Water"

[A] superior whodunit . . . Fans of Chandler and Hammett will be thrilled-- "Publishers Weekly Starred Review of City Walls"

Estleman's Amos Walker [is] a hard-boiled PI straight off Chandler's mean streets . . . Those who can't get enough of fast-talking PIs are in for a treat-- "Booklist on Monkey in the Middle"

Razor-edged prose that Raymond Chandler would appreciate . . . The portrayal of the Motor City is as vivid as James Ellroy's L.A. Estleman makes sustaining a long-running series' high quality look easy-- "Publishers Weekly Starred Review of Monkey in the Middle"

Reading a new Amos Walker novel is an act of pure joy: the writing is perfect, the story impeccably plotted, the resolution satisfying-- "Booklist on Cutthroat Dogs"

Outstanding . . . Estleman makes old-school, dogged, hit-the-pavement sleuthing plausible, while peppering the narrative with biting prose. This long-running series shows no sign of flagging-- "Publishers Weekly Starred Review of Cutthroat Dogs"

Superb . . . everything feels fresh, as though we're meeting Amos and his Detroit for the first time-- "Booklist"

Sterling . . . Estleman enhances the tight plot with characteristically excellent prose-- "Publishers Weekly Starred Review"

Publishing Information

Publisher: Severn House
Pub date: 2026-02-03
Length: 192 pages

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