num_pages: 154
description: Overlook continues its reissues of the incomparable Jim Nisbet's oeuvre with The Damned Don't Die . This is his first novel and it is a gruesome and dark novel set in suburbia."I've always wanted to skin a woman." The line was typed on a blank sheet of paper stuck in a typewriter. Next door San Francisco cops turned up one of the most gruesome sex murders in history. Ex-cop turned private eye, not much surprises Martin Windrow anymore. But this case proves it's in a class by itself, peeling back the genteel surface of suburbia to reveal the murky world where sex and violence merge into murder, where crime blends with illicit pleasures ...
language: English
title: The Gourmet
titlecomplete: The Gourmet
genres: Noir, Fiction, Crime, Mystery
ratings_count: 71
series: Martin Windrow
publisher: Pinnacle Books Paperback Original