The Dead of Winter
by William H. Hallahan
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Edgar Award Finalist for Best First Mystery: "Eerie . . . A book you will gulp down" (The New York Times). Lyons, Basche, and Tyler--three ordinary guys--find their fourth poker night partner, Reece, fatally beaten on the floor of his apartment. Reece was a quiet, unassuming fellow but he had one outstanding trait: his fabulous memory. On Friday nights he could recall every card that was played. Yet his final slurred words were: "I don't remember." His three remaining friends, show more shocked by the indifference of the police, form their own tribunal of retribution: to find the people who had used Reece so ruthlessly and who had disposed of him in the same way; to deal with the assassins with a like kind of justice; and to ferret out the "lost" information that cost Reece his life. Their motivation and their mission culminate in an unforgettable tale of vengeance and its consequences. "Breathtaking and tough." --Library Journal show lessTags
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If I had to rate one book the Best Crime Novel Ever (plainly impossible, I agree), it would be this one.
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William H. Hallahan, an award-winning novelist as well as a historian
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