Street Justice: A Smokey Dalton Novel

Street Justice: A Smokey Dalton Novel

In the first week of the new decade, an emergency phone call shatters Chicago Private Detective Smokey Daltonâ€™s hopes for a good 1970. His adopted son Jimmy and Jimmyâ€™s best friend and cousin Keith Grimshaw need help.

Smokey arrives at a South Side hotel across from the boysâ€™ school in time to clean up a horrible mess, one the boys mostly solve on their own. But the boysâ€™ heroic actions echo across all of Chicago. Smokey finds himself standing alone against street gangs, the mob, and the Democratic Machine.

If he fights this battle and fails, he stands to lose not only Jimmy and their future together, but also his life.

A finalist for the 2015 Shamus Award for Best Original Paperback P.I. Novel by the Private Eye Writers of America.

â€œEasy comparisons can be made to Dave Robicheaux, Spenser, and Easy Rawlins, but Smokey is his own man. Women want to be near him and cook his dinner as he settles his nerves with three fingers of Scotch. A great read for fans of detectives guarding an inner cityâ€™s grimy streets.â€
â€”Library Journal

â€œDaltonâ€™s hard won small victory vividly illustrates a turbulent period of our recent cultural history.â€
â€”Publisherâ€™s Weekly

â€œ... a gripping read that drags us deeper into [Smokey] Daltonâ€™s uneasy world.â€
â€”Entertainment Weekly on War at Home

Acclaim for
the Smokey Dalton Series

â€¢ Edgar Award nomination
â€¢ Shamus nomination for Best Private Eye Hardcover Novel
â€¢ Winner of two Spotted Owl Awards for Best Mystery by a Northwest Writer
â€¢ Oregon Book Award Nomination

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€
For more information about Kris Nelscott, or author Kristine Kathryn Ruschâ€™s other works, please go to KrisNelscott.com or KristineKathrynRusch.com.
Country USA
Manufacturer WMG Publishing, Inc.
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-03-12
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	WMG Publishing, Inc.
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-03-12
Format	Kindle eBook

Street Justice: A Smokey Dalton Novel

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