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Other titles in the Dek Elstrom Mysteries series:Honestly Dearest, You're Dead: A Mystery (Dek Ekstrom Mysteries)by Jack Fredrickson
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:A Safe Place for Dying, the first in Jack Fredricksons highly acclaimed Dek Elstrom mystery series, was nominated for the Shamus Award for Best First Novel. Now, Chicago P.I. Dek Elstrom is back in an electrifying new mystery. A lawyer calls Dek with a fast, seven-hundred dollar proposition. A dead client named Dek to execute her will. No matter that Dek didnt know the woman. No matter, too, that the womans estate was only worth a few hundred. Happens all the time, the lawyer said. To Dek Elstrom, broke and huddling in a cold stone turret in the middle of February, the sound of seven hundred falling down his chimney is louder than his voice of reason. He agrees, heads up to a hamlet ten miles north of nowhere. But instead of finding an easy-to-close estate, he finds blood and the markers of a shattered life. And something worse: links to the darkest part of his own past. He races to chase down leads to the killer, and his own ghost…before the dead woman is killed again. Review:"Fredrickson delivers on the promise of A Safe Place for Dying (2006), a Shamus Award finalist, with this fine follow-up. When an attorney informs PI Vlodek 'Dek' Elstrom that he's been named executor of the estate of Louise Thomas of Rambling, Mich., curiosity and a $700 fee are enough to send Dek from his home in Rivertown, Ill., to desolate Rambling, even though he's never heard of the deceased woman. Dek finds more mystery in Thomas's shack — blood spatters, remnants of a frantic search and an old Underwood typewriter. Dek eventually figures out how he and Thomas connect, but in the process unearths mysteries involving an advice columnist, a bank robbery, arson and murder. Dek is an appealing combination of bloodhound and bulldog, albeit one still in the puppy stage. Fredrickson's light touch, nicely drawn secondary characters and clever plotting make this a promising series with enough substance to make a meal, not just a snack." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
Synopsis:The critically acclaimed author returns with the second in the Dek Ekstrom P.I. series. Smartly plotted, briskly paced, and laced with humor . . . a mystery writer to watch--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review).
About the AuthorJack Fredricksons first Dek Elstrom mystery, A Safe Place for Dying, was nominated for the Shamus Award for Best First Novel. His short fiction has appeared in the acclaimed Chicago Blues and in Michael Connellys Burden of the Badge anthologies. He lives with his wife, Susan, west of Chicago, where he is crafting the next Dek Elstrom novel. Visit his website at www.JackFredrickson.com. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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