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Night Crawlers
A Nameless Detective Mystery
Bill Pronzini
ISBN: 0765349256
Mass Market Paperback, 301pp
Publication Date: December 2005
Publisher: Tor Books
List Price: $6.99
Synposis
(from the publisher): Things were quiet in the San Francisco-based
agency Nameless founded and his partners, Jake and Vanessa were itching
to get back to work. A deadbeat father needed to be found, and Vanessa
needed to do some field work, so she took the file and headed out to
keep an eye on the last known address.
Jake got to work on something much more personal...and dangerous. The
Castro had become the stomping ground, literally, of two violent
gay-bashers and the most recent victim was Jake's son's lover. Father
and son are estranged, but maybe helping now would help them reconcile.
That was Jake's thought when he started. For Nameless it was all a
matter of letting everyone know that if they needed his help, he was
there.
Jake was handling his situation but for Vanessa, things got out of
hand. Her perp never showed up, but when she saw a man carrying a young
girl into the house across the street, she knew something was
wrong....and about to get worse, because she was going to investigate
what was going on.
When she doesn't show up a few days later, Nameless feels a sinking in
his gut: a few years ago he'd been kidnapped, shackled, and left to die
in a cabin in the woods and something about Vanessa's disappearance
echoed too loudly. When he discovers the house she'd investigated on
her own and sees the words TAKING US TO A HOUSE IN THE WOODS scrawled
on a closet wall, the echo became thunderous.
Now it was a raceagainst time, and the clock had begun ticking before Nameless and Jake heard the starter's gun.
Additional Notes:
29th mystery in the Nameless Detective series.
Hardcover published March 2005 (ISBN: 0765309319).
