Dirty Work

Reed Farrel Coleman

Description

Gulliver Dowd is a little person in a world of hurt. After his sister, an NYPD policewoman, is murdered, he becomes a licensed PI. Dowd is shocked to discover that his mysterious new client is Nina, his high-school girlfriend and the one true love of his life. But the real surprise is yet to come. Nina hires Gulliver to find her runaway daughter, convincing him to take the case only when she confesses that the missing girl is Dowd's daughter too, the product of their high-school romance.


When he takes the case, Dowd must travel from an exclusive girls' academy to a Mafia don's mansion to seek the answer to his newfound daughter's disappearance. But all is not what it seems. What is the real surprise awaiting Gulliver Dowd?

Sujets

• Policier & Thriller
• Policier
• Private Investigators
• Nueva York
• NYPD
• ELL
• Teaching English as a foreign language
• New York City
• English as a foreign or second language
• Detective
• Mystery
• EAL
• Electronic Sports League
• New York City Police Department
• Estonian Air
• Fiction
• New York

Informations

• Publié par: Orca Book Publishers
• Date de parution: 01 mars 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 4
• EAN13: 9781459802087
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Advance praise for

DIRTY WORK

“A little man with a huge heart and a huge chip on his shoulder, Gulliver Dowd swaggers into the crime fiction world and takes his place with the great investigators. Smart, vulnerable, wounded, heartbre akingly hopeful, I just adore his company. This is a staggering achievement. Brav o!” —Louise Penny

DIRTY WORK REED FARREL COLEMAN

Copyright © 2013 Reed Farrel Coleman

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Coleman, Reed Farrel, 1956- Dirty work [electronic resource] / Reed Farrel Coleman. (Rapid Reads)

Electronic Monograph Issued also in print format. ISBN 9781459802070(pdf) -- ISBN 9781459802087 (epub)

I. Title. II. Series: Rapid reads (Online) PS3553.O47443D57 2013 813’.54 C2012-907306-7

First published in the United States, 2013 Library of Congress Control Number: 2012952476

Summary: PI Gulliver Dowd searches for the daughter he didn’t know he had, who has gone missing under mysterious circumstances.

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