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A welcome grave

Once a rising star on the police force, Perry ended his career when he left one of the city's prominent attorneys, Alex Jefferson, bleeding in the parking lot of his country club. Now Jefferson is dead, the victim of a brutal murder, and his widow has called upon Perry for a favour he knows he shouldn't accept but can't turn down.

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  • "Following the murder of prominent attorney Alex Jefferson, Cleveland private detective Lincoln Perry is called in by the victim's widow to help locate Jefferson's estranged son, only to find himself the prime suspect in the killing of the missing man."
  • "Once a rising star on the police force, Perry ended his career when he left one of the city's prominent attorneys, Alex Jefferson, bleeding in the parking lot of his country club. Now Jefferson is dead, the victim of a brutal murder, and his widow has called upon Perry for a favour he knows he shouldn't accept but can't turn down."@en
  • "Een ex-rechercheur wordt al gauw verdachte als het lijk wordt gevonden van een advocaat die destijds zijn vrouw inpikte."
  • "Sometime after midnight, on a moonless October night turned harsh by a fine, windswept rain, one of the men I liked least in the world was murdered in a field near Bedford, just south of the city ... The detectives went looking for suspects-- people whose histories with Jefferson were adversarial and hostile. At the top of that list, they found me. So begins A Welcome Grave, the third novel by award-winning mystery writer Michael Koryta, featuring private investigator Lincoln Perry. Once a rising star on the Cleveland police force, Perry ended his career when he left one of the city's prominent attorneys, Alex Jefferson, bleeding in the parking lot of his country club--retribution for his affair with Perry's fiancee. Now Jefferson is dead, the victim of a brutal murder, and his widow has called upon Perry for a favor he knows he shouldn't accept but can't turn down: to find Jefferson's estranged son, partial beneficiary of the dead man's fortune. The case is simple enough, a routine "locate," and he'll be paid plenty of money for the work. The encounter should be simple, too: a brief exchange of information and maybe an empty condolence before Perry gets back into his truck and returns home. Instead, he's loaded into a police car and taken to a rural jail while Jefferson's son is zipped into a body bag. Perry soon learns that Jefferson's millions are the target of a thirst for revenge that hasn't been satisfied by blood. As a pair of deadly assailants push deep into the investigator's life, they bring with them police from two states who are determined to see Perry in jail. Building on the skill that prompted the Toronto Sun to call him "one of America's best young mystery writers," Michael Koryta makes A Welcome Grave an intense exploration of the lengths to which a desperate man is forced to go in order to clear his name and solve a crime. This is a thrilling new book that justifies the critical acclaim and solidifies his role as an emerging talent among today's top writers."@en
  • "Lincoln Perry est détective dans une agence de Cleveland quand l'inspecteur Targent s'intéresse à lui. L'avocat Alex Jefferson est assassiné alors que trois ans plus tôt L. Perry l'avait frappé lors de son mariage avec son ancienne fiancée. L. Perry, innocenté, doit retrouver le fils d'Alex, Matthew, volatilisé depuis cinq ans. C'est l'héritier de 8 millions de dollars. La tâche se révèle ardue."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Crime & mystery"@en
  • "Powieść kryminalna amerykańska"@pl
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Detective and mystery fiction"

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  • "A welcome grave bk.3"
  • "Martwy trop"@pl
  • "A welcome grave"@en
  • "A welcome grave"
  • "Begraven"
  • "Une tombe accueillante : roman"

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