Fifty Grand by Adrian Mckinty
An illegal immigrant is killed in a hit-and-run on a frozen mountain road in the rich Hollywood resort town of Fairview, Colorado. No one is prosecuted for his death, and his case is quietly forgotten. Six months later, posing as an illegal immigrant and working as a maid in Fairview, Havana police officer Detective Mercado begins to secretly investigate the shadowy collision that left her father dead. Who killed him? Was it one of the smooth-talking Hollywood types or a minion of the terrifying county sheriff? And why was her father, a celebrated defector to the United States, hiding in Colorado as the town ratcatcher? In Fifty Grand, Adrian McKinty's live-wire prose crackles with intensity as we follow Mercado through the emotion and violence that lead to a final, shocking confrontation.
Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He studied philosophy at Oxford University before moving to New York in the mid-1990s. His debut novel, Dead I Well May Be, was published in 2003 and was shortlisted for the Dagger Award and the Edgar Award. In 2011, after moving to Australia with his wife and children, Adrian began publication of the critically acclaimed Sean Duffy series. In 2019, after becoming an Uber driver and nearly quitting writing, Adrian published the award-winning and #1 international bestseller The Chain, a standalone crime novel that appeared on over twenty-five major best book of the year lists, including that of Time. Adrian's books have been translated into over thirty languages and he has won the Edgar Award, the International Thriller Writers Award, the Ned Kelly Award (three times), the Anthony Award, the Barry Award, the Macavity Award, and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780805089004 |
| ISBN 10 | 0805089004 |
| Title | Fifty Grand |
| Author | Adrian Mckinty |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Henry Holt & Company |
| Year published | 2009-04-27 |
| Number of pages | 308 |
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