WELCOME GRAVE, A by Michael Koryta - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK
See all titles by Michael Koryta.Sometime after midnight, on a moonless October night turned harsh by
a fine, windswept rain, one of the men I liked least in the world was
murdered in a field near Bedford, just south of the city.... The
detectives went looking for suspects--- people whose histories with
Jefferson were adversarial and hostile. At the top of that list, they
found me.
So begins A Welcome Grave, the third
novel by award-winning mystery writer Michael Koryta, featuring private
investigator Lincoln Perry. Once a rising star on the Cleveland police
force, Perry ended his career when he left one of the city’s prominent
attorneys, Alex Jefferson, bleeding in the parking lot of his country
club---retribution for his affair with Perry’s fiancée.
Now Jefferson is dead, the victim of a brutal murder, and his widow has
called upon Perry for a favor he knows he shouldn’t accept but can’t
turn down: to find Jefferson’s estranged son, partial beneficiary of
the dead man’s fortune. The case is simple enough, a routine “locate,”
and he’ll be paid plenty of money for the work. The encounter should be
simple, too: a brief exchange of information and maybe an empty
condolence before Perry gets back into his truck and returns home.
Instead, he’s loaded into a police car and taken to a rural jail while
Jefferson’s son is zipped into a body bag.
Perry soon
learns that Jefferson’s millions are the target of a thirst for revenge
that hasn’t been satisfied by blood.As a pair of deadly assailants push
deep into the investigator’s life, they bring with them police from two
states who are determined to see Perry in jail.
Building on the skill that prompted the Toronto Sun to call him “one of America’s best young mystery writers,” Michael Koryta makes A Welcome Grave an
intense exploration of the lengths to which a desperate man is forced
to go in order to clear his name and solve a crime. This is a thrilling
new book that justifies the critical acclaim and solidifies his role as
an emerging talent among today’s top writers.