High Steaks

by Rob Loughran

Winner of the Mystery Novel Award. . . Davis O'Kane thought his fall from grace had reached its lowest point, with an impending divorce and a custody battle for his twin daughters, but then he finds a dead body in his restaurant, and his world sinks as deep as a Uranium pit in the high desert of Nightingale, Nevada. Nightingale is a place where high stakes gamblers and rednecks belly up to the bar with high-priced hookers and federal agents. High Steaks propels the reader into the realm of crooked horse racing, cheating the roulette wheel, and murder as hot as a Nevada summer, set against a backdrop of the town's first contested mayoral race in decades. Follow Davis as he unravels the murder and pulls himself up from the brink of despair.

264 pages, Paperback

First published April 18, 2003

Reviews

[Linda · Rating 2 out of 5]

It may have won an award. It may have been written up in one of the professional journals, but it was not good. Raunchy, violent, unappealing characters all around, and not much of a story line.