Days of Rage - Hardcover

Nelscott, Kris

4.26

592 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312325290 ISBN 13: 9780312325299

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2006

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With racial tensions threatening the city of Chicago during the 1969 celebrity trial of the Chicago Eight, African-American private detective Smokey Dalton discovers that his son Jimmy knows a dark secret about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., a situation that becomes complicated when he stumbles upon a group of skeletons tied to the city's racist past. 15,000 first printing.

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Praise for the Novels of Kris Nelscott

War at Home
"A gripping read . . . As with the best of Mosley and Chandler, Dalton's fifth outing leaves us eagerly anticipating the next one."
--Entertainment Weekly

"Nelscott excels at setting a scene, and her evocation of student unrest during that unsettled time is sharp and memorable."
--The Seattle Times

Stone Cribs
"Kris Nelscott can lay claim to the strongest series of detective novels now being written by an American author."
--Salon.com

Thin Walls
"A triumphant series . . . Gripping . . . Nelscott's books about Dalton have already been compared favorably to Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins series. The big difference is that Easy Rawlins has bought into the Los Angeles land-owning dream, while Smokey Dalton, a more militant avenging angel, mostly wants to stay alive and right the terrible wrongs he has seen."
--Chicago Tribune

Smoke-Filled Rooms
"Nelscott brings it all back, and it's hair-raising."
--The Washington Post

"Superb . . . This series has all the passion and precision of Walter Mosley's early Easy Rawlins novels, but it is not derivative. Smokey just may be a more compelling character than the celebrated Easy."
--Booklist (starred review)

A Dangerous Road
"Nelscott has an absorbing story to tell, and she does it justice."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer

About the Author:

Kris Nelscott lives on the Oregon coast. The first Smokey Dalton novel, A Dangerous Road, won the Herodotus Award for Best Historical Mystery and was shortlisted for the Edgar Award for Best Novel; the second, Smoke-Filled Rooms, was a PNBA Book Award Finalist; the third, Thin Walls, was one of the Chicago Tribune's best mysteries of the year; the fourth, Stone Cribs, was honored by the Wisconsin Library Association as one of the best books of 2005, and it and the fifth, War at Home, were both shortlisted for the Oregon Book Award. Visit her Web site at www.kristinekathrynrusch.com.

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