| Fifty Grand: A Novel of Suspense Contributor(s): McKinty, Adrian (Author), Christensen, Paula (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1433292491 ISBN-13: 9781433292491 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: The case of an illegal immigrant killed in a hit-and-run on a frozen Colorado mountain road goes unprosecuted and forgotten, until Cuban Detective Mercado, disguised as an illegal, begins looking for answers to her fathers death. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - General - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 7.4" (0.25 lbs) 1 pages |
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| Publisher Description: An illegal immigrant is killed in a hit-and-run on a frozen mountain road in the rich Hollywood resort town of Fairview, Colorado. No one is prosecuted for his death, and his case is quietly forgotten. Six months later, posing as an illegal immigrant and working as a maid in Fairview, Havana police officer Detective Mercado begins to secretly investigate the shadowy collision that left her father dead. Who killed him? Was it one of the smooth-talking Hollywood types or a minion of the terrifying county sheriff? And why was her father, a celebrated defector to the United States, hiding in Colorado as the town ratcatcher? In Fifty Grand, Adrian McKinty's live-wire prose crackles with intensity as we follow Mercado through the emotion and violence that lead to a final, shocking confrontation. |
Contributor Bio(s): Christensen, Paula: - Paula Christensen was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and raised in the suburbs of New York City. She studied acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Michael Howard Studios in New York City, and the Antaeus Company. Christensen is a graduate of Amherst College, where she received her BA with honors in theater, dance, and anthropology. She currently resides in Los Angeles, where she teaches dance and continues to work on both stage and screen. McKinty, Adrian: -Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He attended Oxford University on a full scholarship where he studied philosophy. In the mid 1990's he moved to New York and found work in bars, bookstores and building sites, finally becoming a high school English teacher in Denver, Colorado. In 2004 Adrian's debut crime novel, Dead I Well May Be, was shortlisted for the Dagger Award and was optioned by Universal Pictures. Since then his books have sold over half a million copies and been translated into a dozen languages. Adrian won the 2017 Edgar Award and is a two time winner of the Ned Kelly Award and the Barry Award. |