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Fresh Kills
 

Fresh Kills

by Bill Loehfelm

Unabridged CDs • 8 CDs, 10 hours

Raw emotion, razor- sharp dialogue, dark humor, and a heartfelt sense of place and character define this noir mystery—and herald the astonishing debut of a compelling voice in contemporary fiction. (read review)

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Fresh Kills
Bill Loehfelm. Putnam, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-15531-4
Superb prose and psychological insights distinguish Loehfelm’s debut. Because Staten Island bartender John Sanders Jr. was regularly physically abused as a child by his father, he reacts at first with indifference to the news that John Senior has been killed, execution style, by an unknown assailant. The death has a greater impact on Sanders’s sister, Julia,...”

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