City of Saints
Autor Andrew Hunten Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 oct 2012
Winner of the 2011 Hillerman Prize, Andrew Hunt's City of Saints is an engaging historical mystery set in 1930s Salt Lake City starring a newly-minted Mormon lawman
To the outside observer, Salt Lake City might seem to be the squeaky-clean "City of Saints"-its nickname since Mormon pioneers first arrived. Its wide roads, huge Mormon temple topped by a horn-blowing angel, and orderly neighborhoods give it the appearance of the ideal American city, but looks can be deceiving.
When a beautiful socialite turns up dead, Art Oveson, a twenty-something husband, father, and devout Mormon just getting his start as a sheriff's deputy, finds himself thrust into the role of detective. With his partner, a foul-mouthed former strikebreaker, he begins to pursue the murderer-or murderers. His search takes him into the underbelly of Salt Lake City, a place rife with blackmail, corruption, and death.
Based on a true yet largely forgotten murder that once captivated the nation but still remains unsolved eighty years later, City of Saints reveals a darker picture of the Mormon capital than you ever expected.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781250015792
ISBN-10: 1250015790
Pagini: 321
Dimensiuni: 147 x 215 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Minotaur Books
ISBN-10: 1250015790
Pagini: 321
Dimensiuni: 147 x 215 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Minotaur Books
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Notă biografică
Andrew Hunt
Recenzii
A "Sun Sentinel "Best Mystery Debut of the Year
"Andrew Hunt makes a hell of an impressive debut with "City of Saints." Art Oveson is a truly unique character on the crime fiction landscape, a young, inexperienced Mormon lawman headed down streets no one would ever suspect were so mean. The Utah landscape is rugged and beautiful and the 1930s setting make this novel an irresistible read. Think a Black Mask classic directed by John Sayles and you'll get the idea." --Ace Atkins, "New York Times "bestselling author of "The Lost Ones """City of Saints "is the best debut novel you'll read this year, maybe any year. It's got everything a great crime novel should have: a complicated mystery, a protagonist you root for, a place and time beautifully evoked, and an emotional intensity that often leaves you breathless. His first time at bat, Andrew Hunt has hit one way out of the ballpark." --William Kent Krueger, "New York Times-"bestselling author of "Northwest Angle """City of Saints" is a terrific detective story set in Salt Lake City in the 1930s. It features a twisty, brilliant plot, great insight and historical richness regarding an area few of us know much about. Like Tony Hillerman in New Mexico, Hunt has made his old home town his own." --Robert Ward, author of "Four Kinds of Rain"
"Set in 1930, Hunt's triumphant mystery debut introduces Salt Lake County deputy Art Oveson, a loving family man and committed Mormon. ... Winner of the 2011 Hillerman Prize, this hard-edged whodunit with echoes of James Ellroy warrants a sequel."
--"Publishers Weekly "(starred review)
"This engrossing historical debut is set in 1930 Salt Lake City and based on a true case. Narrated ... in the first person, the procedural steadily builds up steam and explodes in all the right places. History professor Hunt's title won the 2011 Tony Hillerman Prize. Pair with Sheldon Russell and Lisa Black."
--"Library Journal "(starred review)
"Hunt's firs
"Andrew Hunt makes a hell of an impressive debut with "City of Saints". Art Oveson is a truly unique character on the crime fiction landscape, a young, inexperienced Mormon lawman headed down streets no one would ever suspect were so mean. The Utah landscape is rugged and beautiful and the 1930s setting make this novel an irresistible read. Think a Black Mask classic directed by John Sayles and you'll get the idea."--Ace Atkins, "New York Times "bestselling author of "The Lost Ones"""City of Saints "is the best debut novel you'll read this year, maybe any year. It's got everything a great crime novel should have: a complicated mystery, a protagonist you root for, a place and time beautifully evoked, and an emotional intensity that often leaves you breathless. His first time at bat, Andrew Hunt has hit one way out of the ballpark."--William Kent Krueger, "New York Times-"bestselling author of "Northwest Angle"""City of Saints" is a terrific detective story set in Salt Lake City in the 1930s. It features a twisty, brilliant plot, great insight and historical richness regarding an area few of us know much about. Like Tony Hillerman in New Mexico, Hunt has made his old home town his own."--Robert Ward, author of "Four Kinds of Rain"
"Andrew Hunt makes a hell of an impressive debut with "City of Saints". Art Oveson is a truly unique character on the crime fiction landscape, a young, inexperienced Mormon lawman headed down streets no one would ever suspect were so mean. The Utah landscape is rugged and beautiful and the 1930s setting make this novel an irresistible read. Think a Black Mask classic directed by John Sayles and you'll get the idea."--Ace Atkins, "New York Times "bestselling author of "The Lost Ones"""City of Saints "is the best debut novel you'll read this year, maybe any year. It's got everything a great crime novel should have: a complicated mystery, a protagonist you root for, a place and time beautifully evoked, and an emotional intensity that often leaves you breathless. His first time at bat, Andrew Hunt has hit one way out of the ballpark."--William Kent Krueger, "New York Times-"bestselling author of "Northwest Angle"""City of Saints" is a terrific detective story set in Salt Lake City in the 1930s. It features a twisty, brilliant plot, great insight and historical richness regarding an area few of us know much about. Like Tony Hillerman in New Mexico, Hunt has made his old home town his own."--Robert Ward, author of "Four Kinds of Rain"
"Set in 1930, Hunt's triumphant mystery debut introduces Salt Lake County deputy Art Oveson, a loving family man and committed Mormon. ... Winner of the 2011 Hillerman Prize, this hard-edged whodunit with echoes of James Ellroy warrants a sequel."
--"Publishers Weekly "(starred review)
"Andrew Hunt makes a hell of an impressive debut with "City of Saints." Art Oveson is a truly unique character on the crime fiction landscape, a young, inexperienced Mormon lawman headed down streets no one would ever suspect were so mean. The Utah landscape is rugged and beautiful and the 1930s setting make this novel an irresistible read. Think a Black Mask classic directed by John Sayles and you'll get the idea." --Ace Atkins, "New York Times "bestselling author of "The Lost Ones """City of Saints "is the best debut novel you'll read this year, maybe any year. It's got everything a great crime novel should have: a complicated mystery, a protagonist you root for, a place and time beautifully evoked, and an emotional intensity that often leaves you breathless. His first time at bat, Andrew Hunt has hit one way out of the ballpark." --William Kent Krueger, "New York Times-"bestselling author of "Northwest Angle """City of Saints" is a terrific detective story set in Salt Lake City in the 1930s. It features a twisty, brilliant plot, great insight and historical richness regarding an area few of us know much about. Like Tony Hillerman in New Mexico, Hunt has made his old home town his own." --Robert Ward, author of "Four Kinds of Rain"
"Set in 1930, Hunt's triumphant mystery debut introduces Salt Lake County deputy Art Oveson, a loving family man and committed Mormon. ... Winner of the 2011 Hillerman Prize, this hard-edged whodunit with echoes of James Ellroy warrants a sequel."
--"Publishers Weekly "(starred review)
"This engrossing historical debut is set in 1930 Salt Lake City and based on a true case. Narrated ... in the first person, the procedural steadily builds up steam and explodes in all the right places. History professor Hunt's title won the 2011 Tony Hillerman Prize. Pair with Sheldon Russell and Lisa Black."
--"Library Journal "(starred review)
"Hunt's firs
"Andrew Hunt makes a hell of an impressive debut with "City of Saints". Art Oveson is a truly unique character on the crime fiction landscape, a young, inexperienced Mormon lawman headed down streets no one would ever suspect were so mean. The Utah landscape is rugged and beautiful and the 1930s setting make this novel an irresistible read. Think a Black Mask classic directed by John Sayles and you'll get the idea."--Ace Atkins, "New York Times "bestselling author of "The Lost Ones"""City of Saints "is the best debut novel you'll read this year, maybe any year. It's got everything a great crime novel should have: a complicated mystery, a protagonist you root for, a place and time beautifully evoked, and an emotional intensity that often leaves you breathless. His first time at bat, Andrew Hunt has hit one way out of the ballpark."--William Kent Krueger, "New York Times-"bestselling author of "Northwest Angle"""City of Saints" is a terrific detective story set in Salt Lake City in the 1930s. It features a twisty, brilliant plot, great insight and historical richness regarding an area few of us know much about. Like Tony Hillerman in New Mexico, Hunt has made his old home town his own."--Robert Ward, author of "Four Kinds of Rain"
"Andrew Hunt makes a hell of an impressive debut with "City of Saints". Art Oveson is a truly unique character on the crime fiction landscape, a young, inexperienced Mormon lawman headed down streets no one would ever suspect were so mean. The Utah landscape is rugged and beautiful and the 1930s setting make this novel an irresistible read. Think a Black Mask classic directed by John Sayles and you'll get the idea."--Ace Atkins, "New York Times "bestselling author of "The Lost Ones"""City of Saints "is the best debut novel you'll read this year, maybe any year. It's got everything a great crime novel should have: a complicated mystery, a protagonist you root for, a place and time beautifully evoked, and an emotional intensity that often leaves you breathless. His first time at bat, Andrew Hunt has hit one way out of the ballpark."--William Kent Krueger, "New York Times-"bestselling author of "Northwest Angle"""City of Saints" is a terrific detective story set in Salt Lake City in the 1930s. It features a twisty, brilliant plot, great insight and historical richness regarding an area few of us know much about. Like Tony Hillerman in New Mexico, Hunt has made his old home town his own."--Robert Ward, author of "Four Kinds of Rain"
"Set in 1930, Hunt's triumphant mystery debut introduces Salt Lake County deputy Art Oveson, a loving family man and committed Mormon. ... Winner of the 2011 Hillerman Prize, this hard-edged whodunit with echoes of James Ellroy warrants a sequel."
--"Publishers Weekly "(starred review)
Descriere
Winner of the 2011 Hillerman Prize--an engaging historical mystery set in 1930s Salt Lake City starring a newly-minted Mormon lawman. When a socialite turns up dead, an inexperienced deputy finds himself thrust into the role of detective.