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  • Written by: Charlie Newton
  • Narrated by: Eliza Foss
  • Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
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Calumet City

Written by: Charlie Newton
Narrated by: Eliza Foss
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Among the most self-assured and sharply crafted debuts in recent years, Calumet City detonates a Molotov cocktail of character-driven suspense and ghetto-Chicago intrigue.

Meet Patti Black, the most decorated cop in Chicago. On her ghetto beat, Patti Black redefines the word badass. But her steel-plated exterior - solitary, stoic, loveless - belies the wrenching legacy of her orphaned childhood. Haunted by the horrifying abuse she suffered at the hands of her foster parents, Patti Black sublimates past torments into a meticulously maintained tough-gal persona.

When a series of unrelated cases - a drug bust gone bad, a mayoral assassination attempt, the murder of a state attorney, the exhumation of a long-concealed body from a tenement basement wall -- all point in Patti Black's direction, she finds herself facing the dark truth: You can't hide from your history, no matter how far into the fog you run. For Patti Black, that history didn't die in the tenement wall; it's alive -- and riding her down.

In researching this electrifying thriller, Charlie Newton rode in the squad car with real-life street cop Patti Black. The result is a powerful fiction debut that captures the precise emotional landscape of one cop's hard-bitten life in the trenches. This first-time author joins that rare breed whose fiction is suffused with profound authenticity
©2008 Charlie Newton (P)2009 Audible, Inc.
Hard-Boiled Suspense Noir
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What the critics say

"An atmospheric shocker...Newton certainly has all the hallmarks and above all the classic noir tone -- urban and nocturnal, stealthy and smoky, grim determination doing its two-step with gallows humor." (Chicago Sun Times)
"The best cop noir in years." (Lee Child)

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The Handyman is not a nice man....at all!

I liked the credible , banal creepiness of it, quickly perceived by the young Martin boys . However their is quite gullible, and allows the amiable, unlicensed laborer to build a prefab holiday cottage for the family. At first I thought this would be a feel good story about a simple, kindly carpenter who teaches a young boy valuable life lessons through hard work, craftsmanship. Oh! Was I in for a shock! The handyman here was a nasty, creepy, sly, sweet talking slug of a human being. How he manipulates the adults into accepting his substandard work is amazing. The plot is so full of Frank’s outrageous thievery, evil that you have to keep reading to see how many more gullible folks he can trap. The terrible death of one person as a result of the handyman’s sloppiness, is the novel’s turning point. I thoroughly enjoyed the unraveling of Frank’s history, his use of aliases starting with letter w, as in Watkins, Wills, his obsession with an Oriental religion. This is well-written, Rey tale of horror, terror, occult that is so different in its plotting. I really rooted for our hero, Daniel Martin to find Frank and make him pay for his crimes.

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