City of Saints: A Mystery: 1 (Art Oveson Mystery) - Hardcover

Andrew Hunt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1250015790 ISBN 13: 9781250015792

Publisher: Minotaur Books,US, 2012

Synopsis

When beautiful socialite Helen Kent Pfalzgraf turns up dead, Salt Lake County Deputy Art Oveson - a twenty-something husband, dad, and devout Mormon just getting his start - finds himself thrust into the role of detective. With his partner, a foul-mouthed, vice-ridden former strike-breaker, he begins to pursue Pfalzgraf's murderer - or murderers.

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Review:

"Andrew Hunt makes a hell of an impressive debut with "City of Saints". Art Oveson is a truly unique character on the crime fiction landscape, a young, inexperienced Mormon lawman headed down streets no one would ever suspect were so mean. The Utah landscape is rugged and beautiful and the 1930s setting make this novel an irresistible read. Think a Black Mask classic directed by John Sayles and you'll get the idea."

--Ace Atkins, "New York Times "bestselling author of "The Lost Ones

"""City of Saints "is the best debut novel you'll read this year, maybe any year. It's got everything a great crime novel should have: a complicated mystery, a protagonist you root for, a place and time beautifully evoked, and an emotional intensity that often leaves you breathless. His first time at bat, Andrew Hunt has hit one way out of the ballpark."

--William Kent Krueger, "New York Times-"bestselling author of "Northwest Angle

"""City of Saints" is a terrific detective story set in Salt Lake City in the 1930s. It features a twisty, brilliant plot, great insight and historical richness regarding an area few of us know much about. Like Tony Hillerman in New Mexico, Hunt has made his old home town his own."

--Robert Ward, author of "Four Kinds of Rain"

"Set in 1930, Hunt's triumphant mystery debut introduces Salt Lake County deputy Art Oveson, a loving family man and committed Mormon. ... Winner of the 2011 Hillerman Prize, this hard-edged whodunit with echoes of James Ellroy warrants a sequel."

--"Publishers Weekly "(starred review)

About the Author:

ANDREW HUNT is a professor of history in Waterloo, Ontario. His areas of study include post-1945 U.S. History, the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, and the American West. He has written reviews for "The Globe and Mail" and "The National Post, "authored two works of nonfiction, "The Turning" and "David Dellinger, " and is coauthor of "The 1980s." He grew up in Salt Lake City and currently lives in Canada.

About this edition

• Publisher: Minotaur Books,US
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1250015790
• ISBN 13: 9781250015792
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320