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PoorMonger

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31. Where It Hurts by Reed Farrel Coleman
Wed May 24, 2017, 12:05 PM
May 2017

(Gus Murphy #1)

Nominated for the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Novel

From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author comes a gritty, atmospheric new series about the other side of Long Island, far from the wealth of the Hamptons, where real people live—and die.

Gus Murphy thought he had the world all figured out. A retired Suffolk County cop, Gus had everything a man could want: a great marriage, two kids, a nice house, and the rest of his life ahead of him. But in the course of a single deadly moment, his family is blown apart, and he is transformed from a man who believes he understands everything into a man who understands nothing.
Now divorced and working as a courtesy van driver for a run-down hotel, Gus has settled into a mindless, soulless routine. But his comfortable waking trance comes to an end when ex-con Tommy Delcamino asks him for help. Four months earlier, the battered body of Tommy’s son TJ was discovered in a wooded lot, yet the Suffolk County PD doesn’t seem interested in pursuing the killers. In desperation, Tommy seeks out the only cop he ever trusted—Gus Murphy.
Gus reluctantly agrees to see what he can uncover, and as he begins to investigate, he finds that Tommy was telling the truth. Everyone involved with the late TJ Delcamino—from his best friend, to a gang enforcer, to a Mafia capo, and even the police—has something to hide, and all are willing to go to extreme lengths to keep it hidden. It’s a dangerous favor Gus has taken on as he claws his way back to take a place among the living, while searching through the sewers for a killer.

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Cool! hermetic May 2017 #3
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Sounds Good! PoorMonger May 2017 #15
It's on Netflix or Hulu or Amazon Prime. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2017 #16
Our Mutual Friend cyclonefence May 2017 #2
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The Golem and the Jinn by Helene Wecker Runningdawg May 2017 #7
Ohhhh, that sounds interesting hermetic May 2017 #8
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The Chatelet Apprentice by Jean-Francois Parot pscot May 2017 #9
Dare I say hermetic May 2017 #27
The Bardo is kind of a downer pscot May 2017 #32
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Thanks for that hermetic May 2017 #19
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Well, hermetic May 2017 #30
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Where It Hurts by Reed Farrel Coleman PoorMonger May 2017 #31
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Finished "Pines" PoindexterOglethorpe May 2017 #33
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Elmore Leonard's 'Out of Sight' NoWheyJose May 2017 #35
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