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Loading... The Good Detective (A P.T. Marsh Novel Book 1) (original 2019; edition 2019)by John McMahon (Author)
Work InformationThe Good Detective by John McMahon (2019)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Detective P.T. Marsh has been on a downward spiral since the deaths of his wife and son, mostly drinking his life away. Now he may have killed someone... He's just not sure because he can't remember much from the night before, only that he helped an exotic dancer by beating up her boyfriend. Now the boyfriend is dead and Marsh's fingerprints are all over the crime scene. And, it keeps getting worse - the murdered man may be the lead suspect in the case of a lynching of a young black boy... READ THE REST OF THE REVIEW OVER AT FRESH FICTION! P. T. Marsh is a good detective, but he comes with a lot of baggage. His wife and son were killed in an accident a year ago, and he has turned into a heavy drinker. He is still a good cop, but it’s getting harder to be a good person sometimes. To help a stripper being abused by her boyfriend, he roughs up the boyfriend a bit. When that boyfriend is found dead the next day, and P. T. can’t quite remember what happened the night before; he gets nervous about what he might have done. This starts the beginning of a rather intriguing and complex journey, one that will involve an old conspiracy, racial hatred, abduction, and murder. Not everything P. T. does is by the book, but sometimes that is the only way any kind of justice is achieved. It’s a complicated tale, but one worth the read, even though not everything tied up neatly in a bow at the end. My favorite character? P. T.’s bulldog, who not only “talks” to P. T. in his head, but gives him pretty good advice. no reviews | add a review
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Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:A New York Times Book Review Top 10 Crime Novel for the Year "John McMahon is one of those rare writers who seem to have sprung out of nowhere. His first novel, The Good Detective, which is pretty much perfect, features a decent if flawed hero battling personal troubles while occupied with a murder case of great consequence to his community."â??New York Times Book Review Introducing Detective P.T. Marsh in a swift and bruising debut where Elmore Leonard's staccato prose meets Greg Iles' Southern settings. How can you solve a crime if you've killed the prime suspect? Detective P.T. Marsh was a rising star on the police force of Mason Falls, Georgiaâ??until his wife and young son died in an accident. Since that night, he's lost the ability to see the line between smart moves and disastrous decisions. Such as when he agrees to help out a woman by confronting her abusive boyfriend. When the next morning he gets called to the scene of his newest murder case, he is stunned to arrive at the house of the very man he beat up the night before. He could swear the guy was alive when he left, but can he be sure? What's certain is that his fingerprints are all over the crime scene. The trouble is only beginning. When the dead body of a black teenager is found in a burned-out field with a portion of a blackened rope around his neck, P.T. realizes he might have killed the number-one suspect of this horrific crime. Amid rising racial tension and media scrutiny, P.T. uncovers something sinister at the heart of the boy's murderâ??a conspiracy leading all the way back to the time of the Civil War. Risking everything to unravel the puzzle even as he fights his own personal demons, P.T. races headlong toward an incendiary and life-altering No library descriptions found. |
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I will look forward to the next one in the series. ( )