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Bob Truluck lives in Orlando, Florida, and is a building contractor when he's not busy writing mysteries. His first novel, Street Level, won both the 1999 St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America prize for Best First Private Eye Novel, and the 2000 Shamus Award for Best First Novel from the Private Eye Writers of America.
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| The Art of Redemption |
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Joe Ready, horizontal in the hospital at 98 years old, tells stories of the 1930's and his career as a hunter of kidnappers, through his young partner Jimmy Cotton.
First printing signed by the author on the title page. |
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| Hard cover / $35.00 |
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Second in the Duncan Sloan series:
Saw Red |
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Truluck's second Sloan tale, Saw Red, roars out of Orlando, wheels spitting out beautiful high-class prostitutes, Dixie Mob hitmen, mullet-and muddle-headed homeboy carjackers, really old Florida monied crackers, Italian gangsters fresh from the Jersey Shore, Elmer Gantry-style multimillionaire soul-picking con-artists, all mixed with a stunningly scrumptious and exotic high-dollar rent-a-cop who entwines herself with Sloan in his pursuit of an errant black Jag and the Palm Pilot full of names it once had as a passenger. Truluck spins his tale like the wheels on a commandeered Dodge Viper; pedal to the floor and to hell with casualities. |
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| Hard cover / $30.00 |
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First in the Duncan Sloan series:
Street Level |
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When we meet private detective Duncan Sloan, he's just handed back a $5,000 check meant as advance payment on a job. The wealthy prospective client, Isaac Pike, wants Sloan to find a woman with an eyeball tattoed on her bottom. All he knows is that she's very young, white, probably somewhere in or near Orlando, Sloan's hometown, and has that tattoo. Thanks but no thanks: that's not enough. When the five grand reappears in Sloan's mailbox, he uses it for a Costa Rican vacation and never mind the job.
Pike, however, tracks him down. When he explains the assignment, Sloan finds it bizarre enough to say yes. Isaac Pike is the only son a top-ranked tycoon. He is also gay. He genuinely wants to be a father and has deposited sperm with a reputable clinic in anticipation of finding a suitable mother. But a paroled convict stole the sperm, impregnated a teenager with it and is now blackmailing Pike - send money or we abort the child.
Although Pike's idea of a suitable mother is not quite a waif from an Orlando trailer park, he is decent enough to be genuinely concerned about both mother and child.
Sloan pursues the thief and his buddies and, he hopes, the girl, through the Florida city's sad neighborhoods and outlying cheap motels, calling on his drug-enhanced informers and a contact in the police department. Getting closer brings him to the mangled bodies of the young mother-to-be's relatives and closer to his own danger as well. On he goes...Duncan Sloan may be a rulctant detective, but when he's wound up he's hard to stop. |
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