A Dangerous Road: A Smokey Dalton Novel

A Dangerous Road: A Smokey Dalton Novel

Private Investigator Smokey Dalton works for Memphis, Tennesseeâ€™s black community. He has almost no interaction with the white hierarchy, even though they exist only blocks away. So heâ€™s surprised the day a white woman walks into his Beale Street office. Laura Hathaway has sought him out because heâ€™s a beneficiary in her motherâ€™s will, and Laura wants to know why. So does Smokey. Heâ€™s never heard of the Hathaways, but his search will take him on a journey that will change everything heâ€™s ever known.

Set against the backdrop of the strike and protests that will end with Dr. Martin Luther Kingâ€™s assassination, A Dangerous Road combines the politics of race, betrayal, unexpected love, and the terrible cost of trust into a story so memorable the Mystery Writers of America chose it as one of the top five novels of the year and the Historical Mystery Appreciation Society honored it as the winner of the Herodotus Award for Best Historical Mystery.

â€œMore than just offering a puzzle, this novel encourages self-examination about identity, responsibility and the consequences of choices. Smokey proves himself a man of conscience able to make tough choices.â€ â€” Publisherâ€™s Weekly

â€œNelscottâ€™s series setting, in the turbulent late â€™60s, gives her books layers of issues of racism, class, and war, all of which still seem to remain sadly timely today.â€ â€”Oregonian

â€œItâ€™s not hard to draw parallels between Nelscottâ€™s PI Smokey Dalton and Walter Mosleyâ€™s Easy Rawlins, another secretive, canny black man trying to solve mysteries while circumspectly navigating the white world. But Daltonâ€™s no knock-off. (Would you label the hundreds of hard-boiled detectives whoâ€™ve appeared in Raymond Chandlerâ€™s wake mere Marlow Xeroxes because theyâ€™re white?) â€”Entertainment Weekly

Kris Nelscott is an open pen name used by USA Today bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch.

The first Smokey Dalton novel, A Dangerous Road, won the Herodotus Award for Best Historical Mystery and was short-listed for the Edgar Award for Best Novel; the second, Smoke-Filled Rooms, was a PNBA Book Award finalist; and the third, Thin Walls, was one of the Chicago Tribuneâ€™s best mysteries of the year. Kirkus chose Days of Rage as one of the top ten mysteries of the year and it was also nominated for a Shamus award for The Best Private Eye Hardcover Novel of the Year.

Entertainment Weekly says her equals are Walter Mosley and Raymond Chandler. Booklist calls the Smokey Dalton books â€œa high-class crime seriesâ€ and Salon says â€œKris Nelscott can lay claim to the strongest series of detective novels now being written by an American author.â€

Smokey Daltonâ€™s story will continue at long last in March 2014 with Street Justice, the seventh novel in the series.

For more information about Kris Nelscott, or author Kristine Kathryn Ruschâ€™s other works, please go to KristineKathrynRusch.com.
Country USA
Manufacturer WMG Publishing
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-12-05
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	WMG Publishing
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-12-05
Format	Kindle eBook

A Dangerous Road: A Smokey Dalton Novel

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