num_pages: 288
description: Tess Monaghan has finally made the move and hung out her shingle as a p.i.-for-hire, complete with an office in Butchers Hill. Maybe it's not the best address in Baltimore, but you gotta start somewhere, and Tess's greyhound Esskay has no trouble taking marathon naps anywhere there's a roof. Then in walks Luther Beale, the notorious vigilante who five years ago shot a boy for vandalizing his car. Just out of prison, he says he wants to make reparations to the kids who witnessed his crime, so he needs Tess to find them. But once she starts snooping, the witnesses start dying. Is the "Butcher of Butchers Hill" at it again? Like it or not, Tess is embroiled in a case that encompasses the powers that-be, a heartless system that has destroyed the lives of children, and a nasty trail of money and lies leading all the way back to Butchers Hill.
language: English
title: Butchers Hill
titlecomplete: Butchers Hill (Tess Monaghan #3)
characters: Donnie Moore, Judith Weir, Salamon Hawkings, Luther Beale, Tess Monaghan
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Adult, Contemporary, Crime, Audiobook, Suspense
ratings_count: 5709
places: Baltimore, Maryland
series: Tess Monaghan
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Macavity Award
category: Best Mystery Novel, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Paperback Original, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Shamus Award
category: Best Original PI Paperback, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Agatha Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Paperback Original
publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks