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Girls

A Harpur & Iles Mystery

Bill James

A brilliant combination of almost Jacobean savagery and sexual betrayal with a tart comedy of contemporary mannersFor years Panicking Ralph Ember and Mansel Shale have run profitable drugs empires in peaceful cooperation with each other, and ACC Iles will blind-eye their trade as long as it keeps violence off the streets. But this happy arrangement is threatened by foreign dealers moving in and offering not just drugs, but punters—exploited girls from Eastern Europe. And bloody gang warfare threatens as a scrabble for territory ensues.

“[Bill James'] strangely compelling series offers its own ample rewards.” —Mystery Scene

“A master at creating chaos, James contains the paranoia through sheer force of style—an ironic idiom of elegant manners, ornate language and seething rage. Nothing vulgar or barbaric, but, like the style of assassination that Ember so admires, 'tidy' and 'hygienic' and madly funny.” —Marilyn Stasio, New York Times



September 2007
$23.95
978-0-88150-780-5
5.5 x 8.5, 224 pages, Hardcover


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