Grimsley City, Kentucky, hasn't been particularly welcoming to Jim Carlos Singer. His father was killed in an as-yet-unsolved hit-and-run, his own practice hasn't gotten off the ground, and he's been the target of a series of anonymous threatening letters. These, however, turn out to be the least of his problems. When Singer accepts a job as a parole officer and judicial assistant to make ends meet, he finds himself in the middle of the sensational trial of Shirley Kentner, who is accused of planning the brutal torture and murder of her much older husband. Branded as a Jezebel by the community and facing a seemingly airtight prosecution, Shirley Kentner fascinates Singer, who can't believe she could be guilty. As he begins his own semiofficial investigation of the twisted case, Singer begins to uncover many of the unpleasant secrets that this small town is trying to protect, while his own shadowy past comes back to threaten his peace and his life.

Grim City

Literature & Fiction

HENSLEY, JOE L.

United States

St Martins Pr

When an herbalist who is reputed to be a witch is indicted for the poisoning of her niece and nephew, lawyer Don Robak begins snooping around to find the real murderer and save the herbalist's life.

Robak's Witch: A Don Robak Mystery

Loose Coins: A Mystery

Townsend, Guy

St.Martin's Press

Cannert is searching throughout Florida for his missing wife, Martha. While he was in the hospital, coping with the latest round of treatment for his terminal cancer, Martha was in Flordia looking for an appropriate place for the two of them to retire and for him to die. When he recovered enough to get out of the hospital, Martha had disappeared without a trace. Unsure whether she'd simply left him, whether she'd been killed along the road in Flordia, or something else more sinister, Cannert is on a slow search of the likely places she might have stopped, looking into rumors and quiet whispers of old people - aka 'snowbirds' - disappearing. While he searches, a woman found badly abused, near death, with a massive head injury, slowly recovers in a mental hospital. She remembers almost nothing, only knowing someone out there is looking for her. And, with no knowledge of who she is, and where she can go, she goes on the run from a shadowy man that she spies watching her from outside the hospital's fence. A classically noir novel about justice, retribution, aging -- and the dark underside of society.

Snowbird's Blood

Hensley, Joe

Contemporary

Minotaur Books

The poison summer

Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday

A killing in gold

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Doubleday/Crime Club

Lawyer Don Roback has forty-eight hours to find out whether Avery Benjamin died in a fire or is still alive--and whether the Benjamin family's insurance claim is a hoax

Robak's Fire

DOUBLEDAY

Offers a new collection of stories marked by mystery, mayhem, and murder

Robaks Firm

DDay Gen Adult

Mystery

Robak must locate the missing daughter of an elderly and infirm judge before she is completely swallowed up by the life of drugs into which she descended twelve years before

Robak's Run

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