Uncivil Seasons by Michael Malone

A rare snowstorm has enveloped Hillston, North Carolina, covering everything--including a shocking murder. Detective Justin Savile, the wayward son of Hillston's founding family, is expected to arrest the usual scapegoat, but the boozy Justin has never been good at doing the expected. Michael Malone has created two of the most memorable police detectives to appear in mystery fiction, fresh and unforget- table. He has written a rattling good mystery; he has also written an excellent novel' Ed McBain 'Hammett and Chandler are the masters of the thriller written so impeccably that it becomes more like art or revelation. Malone will surely join them' Daily Mail A finely-crafted thriller that also delights as a broader work of fiction. a highly impressive novel' Time Out Written with wit. style, literacy and panache. Uncivil Seasons is a lovely example of the kind of thriller American writers do best Books and Bookmen.