Laughing Dog

LAUGHING DOG ?Sensational writing, mordant wit, an intricate crime puzzle...? Harlan Ellison Hardboiled private eye Leo Bloodworth and his self-appointed partner, fifteen-year-old Serendipity Dahlquist, are back in a wild and deadly new mystery that?s every bit as brilliant and memorable as SLEEPING DOG, a New York Times Book of the Year, a Nero Wolfe Award winner, and a finalist for the Edgar, Shamus and Anthony Awards. ?Dancingly macabre, packed with perils, pungent with humor.? The Sunday Times (London) This time, Leo and Serendipity are on the trail of a teenage runaway and missing pair of sapphire earring, two seemingly separate, increasingly dangerous cases rife with gang members, designer drugs, killer birds, DIY plastic surgeryand a terrorist plot that could plunge sunny Southern California into a permanent nuclear winter. ?An intelligent, playful, knowledgeable writer Lochte has a great gift for the grotesquerie.? Los Angeles Times ?Deliciously humorous and touching.? Publishers Weekly