Book description
Winner of the Best First Crime Novel at the 2019 Arthur Ellis Awards!
Nominated for a Lefty for Best Debut Mystery Novel!
"Hammerhead" Jed Ounstead thought he'd traded the pro-wrestling world for the slightly less dangerous one of a bar bouncer and errand boy for his father's detective agency, but…
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If you think Rex Stout mixing Agatha Christie with Raymond Chandler sounds like fun, allow me to introduce you to A.J. Devlin.
His books feature a far wilder combo: private eyes and professional wrestling. I just read the first book in his “Hammerhead” Jed mystery series, Cobra Clutch, and it’s as hard-hitting as a piledriver…but fun, too! Washed-up wrestler Jed Ounstead has to delve deep into the shady world of small-time fight promoters and drug running to catch the men who killed his former tag-team partner.
To get to the truth, he has to face his own troubled past—and kick…
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