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The Girl Who Blew Up the World

(2018)
(The fifth book in the Jimmy Riley series)
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A missing girl. A shell-shocked soldier. A wife stepping out on her husband. Two women beaten to death. A sinister sabotage plot. A wounded, relentless private eye who will stop at nothing to protect those he loves.



Walk the mean streets of wartime Panama City with Jimmy Riley, a wounded, woman-haunted knight errant in Michael Lister's resonant new noir series Publisher's Weekly calls "a promising private detective series set in 1940s Florida," and Library Journal says "peppered with snappy dialog, this hard-boiled mystery by award winner Lister is a swell read."



"Michael Lister writes some of the best hard-boiled prose going. Nothing short of amazing!" Booklist Starred Review.




Genre: Mystery

Praise for this book

"Tight, taut, terrific PI noir with a classic and fully-realized 1940's setting." - Kelli Stanley


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