The Subtle Art of Brutality

By Ryan Sayles

The girl has gone missing. Again. But this time people are trying to kill her. Trying to burn down everything she has touched or left behind. The girl's surrogate father feels responsible and to assuage his guilt he hires Richard Dean Buckner, former Saint Ansgar homicide detective turned private eye to ferret her out.Buckner was doing fine as a bare-knuckles detective for the PD until he was rendered "unserviceable" by a hit attempt. Early retirement doesn't sit well with that type of man, half predator and half savior. He takes the case, and from two ex-boyfriends who ruined their lives for the girl to her rapist dad, drug dealers she burned for thousands, an uncomfortable meeting at the local Incest Survivors group to whoever is setting fire to her life, Buckner is going to need all his guts, instinct and .44 magnum to finish the job.Because in Saint Ansgar, what doesn't kill you only makes you wish it did.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1481066412
• ISBN13: 9781481066419
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.9" x 5.0"