Gold Coast

Lean, mean, darkly funny. Boston Globe A zingy thriller by the master of hard-boiled suspense. Dallas Morning NewsElmore Leonard may be the greatest crime novelist in the world, declares the Seattle Times, and truer words have never been written. Just follow the Grand Master of mystery and suspense to Floridas Gold Coast and youll quickly discover that its so. In this classic Elmore Leonard thriller, a beautiful mafia widow stands to lose everything her late mob boss husband left her if she succumbs to her desire for an attractive Detroit ex-conso the two conspire to outwit the thugs the dead capo assigned to make sure she stays chaste. Superior crime fiction in the vein of John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Robert Parkerchock full of the eccentric characters, black humor, and razor-sharp dialogue for which the acclaimed creator of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (of TVs Justified) is justifiably famousGold Coast is gold standard Leonard.