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$2.99 eBook Sale: Don’t Look for Me by Loren D. Estleman

January 31, 2018torforge

The ebook edition of Don’t Look for Me by Loren D. Estleman is on sale now for only $2.99! This offer will only last for a limited time, so order your copy today.

About Don’t Look for Me: Amos Walker doesn’t mean to walk into trouble. But sometimes it finds him, regardless. The missing woman has left a handwritten note that said, “Don’t look for me.” Any P.I. would take that as a challenge, especially when he found out that she’d left the same message once before, when having an illicit affair.

But this time it’s different. The trail leads Walker to an herbal remedies store, where the beautiful young clerk knows nothing about the dead body in the basement…or about any illegal activity that might be connected to the corpse. She is, however, interested in Walker’s body, and he discovers he’s interested in hers as well.

But he can’t tarry long, for the Mafia could be involved…or maybe there’s a connection to the porno film studio where the missing woman’s former maid now works. But when two Mossad agents accost Walker—and then are brutally killed—he realizes he’s discovered a plot far darker run by someone more deadly than either the Detroit Mafia or a two-bit porn pusher.

Who—or what—could be so viciously murderous? Walker has few clues, and knows only that with every new murder he is no closer to solving the case. When he finally gets a break, he recognizes the silken, deadly hand of a nemesis who nearly killed him twice before…and this time may finish the job.

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You Know Who Killed Me, by Loren D. Estleman, reviewed in the New York Times!

December 23, 2014May 10, 2024torforge

“For readers who mourn the passing of the classic American private eye who drinks hard liquor, ogles the dames and cracks one-liners out of the side of his mouth, Walker’s your man. And the sweet part is that he’s the genuine article — a decent guy trying to do an honest job in a society that no longer shares his working-class ethic or values his skills. Except, of course, for us.”

Loren D. Estleman’s You Know Who Killed Me was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review!

Here’s the full review, from the December 21st issue:

Like his hometown, Detroit, Amos Walker is on the skids. In You Know Who Killed Me (Tom Doherty/Forge, $24.99), Loren D. Estleman’s case-hardened private eye is fresh out of rehab and none too steady on his feet. A friend on the police force throws him a pity job, doing some legwork on a murder case in Iroquois Heights — with the proviso that he keep his nose out of the investigation. But Walker never graduated from obedience school, and he’s soon conducting terse, tongue-in-cheek interviews with a rogues’ gallery of “nosy neighbors, gossip addicts, cranks, pranksters, ax-grinders, attention hounds and fruitcakes” who all want to get their hands on the $10,000 reward money offered by a local church. For readers who mourn the passing of the classic American private eye who drinks hard liquor, ogles the dames and cracks one-liners out of the side of his mouth, Walker’s your man. And the sweet part is that he’s the genuine article — a decent guy trying to do an honest job in a society that no longer shares his working-class ethic or values his skills. Except, of course, for us.

You Know Who Killed Me was published on December 9th.

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Starred Review: You Know Who Killed Me by Loren D. Estleman

November 25, 2014May 15, 2024torforge2 Comments

“The solution is among the author’s craftiest and bleakest.”

Loren D. Estleman’s You Know Who Killed Me got a starred review in Publishers Weekly!

Here’s the full review, from the October 17 issue:

Edgar-finalist Estleman’s compelling 24th Amos Walker novel (after 2014’s Don’t Look for Me) finds the hard-bitten Detroit PI in rehab, after overdosing on alcohol and Vicodin. The doctor treating Walker gives him a break by not reporting his possession of the pain medication without a prescription. Meanwhile, an old friend asks his help with a murder case in nearby Iroquois Heights: Donald Gates, who maintained the computer that operated the city’s traffic lights, was gunned down in his basement. Lt. Ray Henty, who’s in charge of the corrupt Iroquois Heights PD, has a tough job made harder by the placement of huge billboards featuring Gates’s photo and the legend, “You Know Who Killed Me.” The responses to the ads flood the sheriff’s department tip line with dozens of anonymous calls, which Walker is deputized to look into. The solution is among the author’s craftiest and bleakest.

You Know Who Killed Me will be published on December 9.

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Infernal Angels receives a starred review in PW!

May 12, 2011May 10, 2024torforge

“Shamus Award–winner Estleman demonstrates that the art of inserting a Philip Marlowe–esque hero into modern times is alive and well in his 21st novel featuring Detroit PI Amos Walker…”

Infernal Angels by Loren Estleman has received a Starred review in this week’s Publishers Weekly!

Below is the full review:

“Shamus Award–winner Estleman demonstrates that the art of inserting a Philip Marlowe–esque hero into modern times is alive and well in his 21st novel featuring Detroit PI Amos Walker (after 2010’s The Left-Handed Dollar). Reuben Crossgrain, proprietor of Past Presence (“Everything you require for the Modern Regressive Lifestyle”), hires Walker to recover 25 TV converter boxes that allow the owner to watch HDTV on an analog set, although the total value of the loss isn’t much more than Walker’s standard retainer. The detective hits the pavement to identify the likely recipients of the hot items, and his digging soon attracts the attention of ex-Detroit police detective Mary Ann Thaler, who now works in D.C. on homeland security. As the bodies start to drop, Estleman presents a powerful view of the battered inner city, where federally funded housing ends up derelict. Three decades on, Estleman and Walker show no signs of slowing down. “(July)