Bøger af Stephen Mack Jones

"Father Michael Grabowski, a Franciscan priest who has tended the spiritual needs of Detroit's Mexicantown for forty years, has suddenly retired. August Snow, who has known the priest his whole life, finds the circumstances troubling--especially in light of the recent suspicious suicide of another local priest. What dark history is Father Grabowski hiding? The situation takes a turn for the deadly with the appearance at the Detroit diocese of a mysterious priest and combat vet calling himself Francis Dominioni Petra. The man comes from the Vatican, and as his armored guard circles closer and closer to Father Grabowski and his friends, August wants to know why. A terrible crime has been committed in the name of faith-but who is seeking justice, and who is trying to bury the truth and any of its witnesses? August grapples with his own ideas about his faith and his chosen family in this action-packed fourth installment in the Hammett Prize-winning series"--

"Father Michael Grabowski, a Franciscan priest who has tended the spiritual needs of Detroit's Mexicantown for forty years, has suddenly retired. August Snow, who has known the priest his whole life, finds the circumstances troubling--especially in light of the recent suspicious suicide of another local priest. What dark history is Father Grabowski hiding? The situation takes a turn for the deadly with the appearance at the Detroit diocese of a mysterious priest and combat vet calling himself Francis Dominioni Petra. The man comes from the Vatican, and as his armored guard circles closer and closer to Father Grabowski and his friends, August wants to know why. A terrible crime has been committed in the name of faith-but who is seeking justice, and who is trying to bury the truth and any of its witnesses? August grapples with his own ideas about his faith and his chosen family in this action-packed fourth installment in the Hammett Prize-winning series"--

Die Dinge stehen gerade nicht zum Besten in Mexicantown. Die US-Einwanderungsbehörde macht willkürlich Razzien, die Einwohner leben in Angst. Als die Leiche einer jungen mexikanischen Frau aus dem Detroit River gezogen wird, schaltet der Gerichtsmediziner Bobby Falconi seinen alten Freund August Snow ein. Denn die als Prinzessin verkleidete Tote war Opfer sexueller Gewalt und illegal im Land. Eine Spur der Korruption tut sich auf, die von der Einwanderungsbehörde in die höchsten Kreise der Gesellschaft und zu einem internationalen Menschenhandelsring führt.Die Hard Boiled Crime-Serie aus den USAStephen Mack Jones, geboren in Lansing, Michigan, arbeitete mehrere Jahre in der Werbe- und Marketingbranche, bevor er sich dem Schreiben zuwandte. Seine Lyrik und Dramatik wurden mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet. Sein erster Thriller, »Der gekaufte Tod«, gewann sowohl den Nero Award als auch den Hammett Prize for Crime Fiction.