Out of the Blues

By Trudy Nan Boyce

Book Overview

"A fresh, gritty debut. Boyce unveils one of the best new series characters in ages. . . A book that combines fast-paced suspense with moving insights."--#1 New York Times -bestselling author Lisa Gardner From an author with more than thirty years' experience in the Atlanta Police Department comes a riveting procedural debut introducing an unforgettable heroine. On her first day as a newly minted homicide detective, Sarah "Salt" Alt is given the cold-case murder of a blues musician whose death was originally ruled an accidental drug overdose. Now new evidence has come to light that he may have been given a hot dose intentionally. And this evidence comes from a convicted felon hoping to trade his knowledge for shortened prison time . . . a man who Salt herself put behind bars. In a search that will take her into the depths of Atlanta's buried wounds--among the city's homeless, its politically powerful churches, commerce and industry, and the police department itself--Salt probes her way toward the truth in a case that has more at stake than she ever could have imagined. At once a vivid procedural and a penetrating examination of what it means to be cop, Out of the Blues is a remarkable crime debut.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399167269
• ISBN13: 9780399167263
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"