Fifty Grand: A Novel of Suspense
Categories: Books, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense

This knockout punch of a thriller from a critically acclaimed author follows a young Cuban detective&apos;s quest for vengeance against her father&apos;s killer in a Colorado mountain town A man is killed in a hit-and-run on a frozen mountain road in the town of Fairview, Colorado. He is an illegal immigrant in a rich Hollywood resort community not unlike Telluride. No one is prosecuted for his death and his case is quietly forgotten. Six months later another illegal makes a treacherous run across the border. Barely escaping with her life and sanity intact, she finds work as a maid with one of the employment agencies in Fairview. Secretly, she begins to investigate the shadowy collision that left her father dead. The maid isn&apos;t a maid. And she&apos;s not Mexican, either. She&apos;s Detective Mercado, a police officer from Havana, and she&apos;s looking for answers: Who killed her father? Was it one of the smooth- talking Hollywood types? Was it a minion of the terrifying county sheriff? And why was her father, a celebrated defector to the United States, hiding in Colorado as the town ratcatcher? Adrian McKinty&apos;s live-wire prose in Fifty Grand crackles with intensity as we follow Mercado through the swells of emotion and violence that lead up to a final shocking confrontation.


Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (April 27, 2009)
Publication date: April 27, 2009
Language: English
File size: 534 KB
Text to Speech: Enabled
Screen Reader: Supported
Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
X Ray: Not Enabled
Word Wise: Enabled
Sticky notes: On Kindle Scribe
Print length: 319 pages