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Machine City
“The Police Procedural has three Ed McBain, Joseph Wambaugh, and David Simon with Homicide. Clear a space on the shelf beside these masters. Jack Howland has written a superb novel that sits right alongside those maestros.”
Ken Bruen, Shamus-Award-winning author of The Guards and Killing the Tinkers
Just before Christmas, police answer a murder call from the Connolly Village projects, a.k.a. “Conville.” The victim is unidentifiable, naked, bound, and set afire.
Working in his breakneck style, Detective Tom Rinne has a witness and suspect before anyone expects. When he identifies the victim, however, he reopens the case of a beautiful girl who vanished last summer – a girl with connections to the most powerful men in the city.
As Rinne dives back into the case, it’s only a minor political firestorm. When a young black suspect is shot, however, it spirals into a race war. Rinne finds himself first a scapegoat, then a suspect, then a fugitive. One woman can save him or sell him down the river – the only woman he ever loved. One simple device – the girl’s phone – can unravel the truth and expose secrets Rinne himself might prefer to keep hidden.
Read more from and about the author at jackhowland.com.
Ken Bruen, Shamus-Award-winning author of The Guards and Killing the Tinkers
Just before Christmas, police answer a murder call from the Connolly Village projects, a.k.a. “Conville.” The victim is unidentifiable, naked, bound, and set afire.
Working in his breakneck style, Detective Tom Rinne has a witness and suspect before anyone expects. When he identifies the victim, however, he reopens the case of a beautiful girl who vanished last summer – a girl with connections to the most powerful men in the city.
As Rinne dives back into the case, it’s only a minor political firestorm. When a young black suspect is shot, however, it spirals into a race war. Rinne finds himself first a scapegoat, then a suspect, then a fugitive. One woman can save him or sell him down the river – the only woman he ever loved. One simple device – the girl’s phone – can unravel the truth and expose secrets Rinne himself might prefer to keep hidden.
Read more from and about the author at jackhowland.com.
371 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 23, 2018
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