He is also the author of Devil in the Hole, which was named one of the best crime novels of 2016 by Suspense magazine. What happens next changes the life of both women in unexpected ways.Ĭharles Salzberg is the author of the Shamus nominated Swann's Last Song, along with the sequels, Swann Dives In and Swann's Lake of Despair, which was a finalist for two Silver Falchions, the Beverly Hills Book Award and the Indie Excellence Award. Montgomery claims she’s innocent and Sullivan, smelling a big story that might finally get her on the national radar, investigates and turns up evidence that the woman has, indeed, been framed. Trish Sullivan, an ambitious TV reporter working a small, upstate New York market, receives a note from Meg Montgomery, a beautiful young woman convicted of murdering her husband and two children. Now he’s playing with big boys and finds the price of the game way over his head. Unfortunately, his latest shipment contained some illegal automatic weapons. With a truckload of untaxed cigarettes, all he has to do is cross the state border and unload his cargo. When he forges a reluctant alliance with his wife’s new lover, he realizes there’s lots of money to be made from smuggling cigarettes. Then came the divorce … and the alimony and child support and extra rent. Life was so much simpler for our marijuana-selling narrator when all he had to worry about was keeping his customers, wife, and daughter satisfied.
Before the last shot is fired, everything they thought was certain proves to be a shadow and everything they trusted opens into a trap.
cops to play out a deadly obsession that takes them from back alley payoffs to hard time in prison, then deep into the tunnel networks south of the border to a murderous town that’s only rumored to exist. Join us on Wednesday, November 2nd at 7:00pm for a reading and discussion with Ross Klavan, Tim O'Mara, and Charles Salzberg from Triple Shot: 3 Crime Novellas.
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