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Crossing the Chicken: A Jake Diamond Mystery
Paperback
Series: Jake Diamond Mystery, Book 5
Publisher Price: $12.95
ISBN13: 9781643960302
Publisher: Down & Out Books
Published: Sep 9 2019
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
San Francisco. Late September, 2004.
The Giants are hanging on to the slim hope of a spot in the Major League baseball playoffs.
The Forty-Niners are hoping for their first win of the season after three losses.
Vinnie Strings Stradivarius is in the intensive care ward at St. Francis Memorial Hospital--and Jake Diamond is hoping Vinnie will both survive and avoid a homicide indictment if he pulls through.
Vinnie has been double-crossed, shot and left for dead at a crime scene, and he is the chief suspect in the murder of one of the city's most influential businessmen.
Anyone who knows Vinnie knew he wouldn't hurt a fly.
But the District Attorney and the San Francisco Police Department brass don't know him--and they don't care. Pressure from the Mayor's Office and the public is calling for a quick indictment and conviction--and Vinnie is handy.
Jake Diamond has a strong dislike of the double-cross. If asked why the chicken crossed the road, Jake would suggest the road had crossed the chicken.
In a race against time--with the help of Darlene Roman, Detective Sergeant Roxton Johnson of the SFPD, Sonny The Chin Badalamenti, bookmaker William Big Bill Conway, and Mob Underboss Tony Carlucci--Jake frantically scrambles to find answers before the case is closed with Vinnie taking the fall.
In Abramo's first Jake Diamond mystery since the Shamus Award-winning Circling the Runway, Jake is determined to prove that you cross the chicken at your own risk.
Praise for the Jake Diamond mysteries:
One of my all-time favorite PI series. --Steve Hamilton, Edgar Award-winning author of The Lock Artist
Think it's impossible to find a new take on the wise-cracking San Francisco PI? Meet Jake Diamond and think again...sharp and smart, convincing and complex. --S.J. Rozan, Edgar Award-winning author of Absent Friends
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