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Blurb: “THE DEAD OF WINTER
Nominated by Mystery Writers of American for Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best First Mystery Novel
This is a novel of vengeance.
Three Friday night poker players – Lyons, Basche and Tyler – find that the fourth partner, Reece, fatally beaten, on the floor of his apartment. Reece was a quiet, unassuming fellow, but he had one outstanding trait: He had a fabulous memory, the kind of mind that could recall the entire Constitution, down to the last comma, period and signature. On Friday nights he would remember every card that was played. A fabulous memory. Yet his final last words were: "I don't remember."
"I don't remember."
Lyons, Basche and Tyler, shocked by the indifference of the police, form their own tribunal of retribution: to find the people who had used Reece so ruthlessly and who had disposed of him in the same way: to deal with the assassins with a like kind of justice; and to ferret out the "lost" information that had cost Reece his life. With a twofold meaning, they want to vindicate Vinnie Reece's memory.
This is the story of three ordinary workaday guys who become chillingly extraordinary. As their cleverness becomes increasingly more ingenious and their blood lust grows out of proportion, they are confronted with the same menace that killed Reece.
This is a novel of vengeance - and its consequences.”