Honestly Dearest, You're Dead

✍ Scribed by Fredrickson, Jack

• Book ID: 109008519
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 179 KB
• Series: Dek Elstrom 2
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780312380922

✦ Synopsis

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A Safe Place for Dying_ , the first in Jack Fredrickson's highly acclaimed Dek Elstrom mystery series, was nominated for the Shamus Award for Best First Novel. Now, Chicago P.I. Dek Elstrom is back in an electrifying new mystery.

A lawyer calls Dek with a fast, seven-hundred dollar proposition. A dead client named Dek to execute her will. No matter that Dek didn't know the woman. No matter, too, that the woman's estate was only worth a few hundred. Happens all the time, the lawyer said.

To Dek Elstrom, broke and huddling in a cold stone turret in the middle of February, the sound of seven hundred falling down his chimney is louder than his voice of reason. He agrees, heads up to a hamlet ten miles north of nowhere. But instead of finding an easy-to-close estate, he finds blood and the markers of a shattered life. And something worse: links to the darkest part of his own past. He races to chase down leads to the killer, and his own ghost...before the...