description: It's Christmas Eve, 1979, in Wichita, and Charlie Arglist, a crooked lawyer and strip-club owner, is drunkenly making the rounds before he blows town for good. Getting progressively drunker and deeper in trouble, Charlie needs to drop off a photograph of a local official in a compromising position and steal some drug money. Before it's all over, a lot of people are going to wind up dead.
language: English
title: The Ice Harvest
titlecomplete: The Ice Harvest
characters: Charlie Arglist
genres: 20th Century, Thriller, American Fiction, Crime, Noir, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, Fiction, Christmas
ratings_count: 1286
places: Wichita, Kansas, Kansas
series: The Ice Harvest
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Barry Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best First Mystery, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Hammett Prize, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: California Book Award
category: First Fiction (Silver), awardedAt: 978336000000
name: CWA Silver Dagger, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: CWA New Blood Dagger, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: Audiofy/Blackstone