A BRUNO X PSYCHIC DETECTIVE MYSTERY
The Violet Crow—New Expanded Edition by Michael Sheldon
“Michael Sheldon’s Violet Crow is an original debut that promises good things to come, and Bruno X is like no detective you’ve ever met.” —Thomas Perry, Edgar and Gumshoe Award-winning author of the Butcher’s Boy and Jane Whitefield novels
“Crow plays in your head like a beautiful parody of a film noir, richly detailed in its hard boiled madness.” —Susan L.M. Goldberg, PJ Media
A senseless murder stuns the quiet South Jersey suburbs of Philadelphia. No grieving parents come forward to claim the unknown girl’s body, and there aren’t any clues. The police are inexperienced. The local media are casting blame and demanding answers. A mini-culture war is brewing… So what do the civic leaders do? They hire Bruno X, Psychic Detective.
No joke, the guy’s got talent. And a track record. Sure, his psychic shtick is a bit unorthodox. Yet, somehow, he gets results—solving long-forgotten mysteries locked inside the old brick Quaker meeting house, and uncovering closely held secrets hidden within the biotech company whose symbol is the Violet Crow.
This new edition is enhanced with a foreword by the author, a Yiddish-American glossary, a “Don’t-be-a shmuck-universal-personality-profile” scatter diagram, and a list of Don Rickles-inspired questions for book groups.
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