Back Bay Blues
$43.83
- Hardcover
304 pages
- Release Date
21 December 2020
Summary
In the second hardboiled P.I. mystery by law enforcement officer and Iraq veteran Peter Colt, a Boston P.I. struggling to come to terms with his role in the Vietnam war investigates the murder of a beautiful, young Vietnamese woman’s uncle in 1985 New England.
“A classical mystery with an honor-bound detective and a keen sense of place… Besides having the P.I. spiel and the P.I. moves down pat, Roark is genuinely likable (not too tough, but not a patsy) and very much a character of hi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781496723420 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1496723422 |
| Author: | Peter Colt |
| Publisher: | Kensington Publishing |
| Imprint: | Kensington Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 21 December 2020 |
| Weight: | 366g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
| Series: | An Andy Roark Mystery |
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Critics Review
Praise for Peter Colt and The Off-Islander
“Entertaining … Like Philip Marlowe—or Robert Parker’s Spenser—Andy has a sharp eye for telling detail and male haberdashery. Those who enjoy newish reworkings of classic PI tropes will be satisfied.”
—Publisher Weekly
“If you like your mysteries to be old-school in the vein of John D. MacDonald, or even farther back to Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, then you will appreciate this striking debut by Peter Colt. Long on atmosphere, detail, and character, it could place detective Andy Roark amongst the classic noir sleuths.”
—Raymond Benson, author of Blues in the Dark
“New England police officer Colt’s first novel is a boozy pipe dream of a private eye’s search for a long-missing father … [with] lots of attitude.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“This atmospheric debut mystery should appeal to fans of the early works of Dennis Lehane and Robert B. Parker.”
—Library Journal
“By the end of the book … the reader has been taken for a long, exciting ride … We are told that this is not the last of the Andy Roark novels. I look forward to the next one.”
—Vietnam Veterans of America
“Readers yearning for a noir mystery in the vein of Mike Hammer or Sam Spade are in luck. Peter Colt has delivered just such a tale of intrigue… . Colt, an Army veteran who served in Kosovo and Iraq and now is a police officer in a small New England city, captures his firsthand, on-the-job experience in moody prose. The novel spends nearly as much time exploring Roark’s inner demons from the Vietnam War and life afterward as it does with the case at hand, adding a deeply evocative perspective to events.”
—Bookpage
About The Author
Peter Colt
Peter Colt is currently a police officer in a small New England city where he has worked since 2007. He spent over twenty years in the Army reserve and was deployed to Kosovo in 2000, where he was attached to the Russian Army. He was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and again in 2008. He was fortunate to get to know many Vietnam vets and U.S. Army Special forces soldiers. He lived on Nantucket Island from 1973‑1986. He’s currently working on the next Andy Roark mystery.
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