SORROW’S ANTHEM In the beginning, it was just about the money. Then things got personal. This is the story that Ed Gradduk tells his best friend, private investigator Lincoln Perry. Ed is on the run, hiding from the police who are looking to arrest him for arson and murder. When Gradduk is killed in a brutal confrontation with the Cleveland police, Perry is shaken. How could this have happened to his friend? With his trademark grit and determination, Perry sets out to understand the forces that brought down Ed Gradduk. * Named one of the Best Crime Novels of the Year by The Chicago Tribune * (Book 2 in the Lincoln Perry series) Rights Information Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur, Hardcover (February 7, 2006) St. Martin's, Paperback (January 2, 2007) Territory: World Rights Available: Film/TV Reviews: "Inspired by Hammett and Chandler, the 22-year-old Koryta (Tonight I Said Goodbye, 2004) displays the maturity of a writer with several novels under his belt, and his plot percolates with crisp dialogue that might impress Chandler himself." - Booklist (Starred review) "Koryta's impressive second hardboiled mystery is a worthy successor to his debut, Tonight I Said Goodbye (2004), an Edgar and Shamus finalist...The 22-year-old author, who works for a PI and for an Indiana newspaper, displays credible insider knowledge of those professions as well as a gift for creating both sympathetic characters and a fast-moving, twisty plot." - Publishers Weekly "Koryta achieves just the right balance, letting his plot (and the hot-headed Lincoln's slow and dangerous slide into obsession) unfold slowly, but with a sense of tragic inevitability, allowing readers to determine for themselves what's driving the characters, instead of hitting them over the head with it...I knew, from reading Tonight I Said Goodbye, that Koryta was capable of crafting powerful scenes that reverberate long after the final page has been read (I still remember the melting snowman); but nothing prepared me for the cool assurance he brings to bear in this new story. Not only is the plot of Sorrow's Anthem snappier and more engrossing, and the characters and their motives more fully developed, but the dialogue's tighter and the details sharper. Even better: This time out, the author has something to say. I'm almost afraid to see how good his third one will be." - January Magazine "Koryta's latest is, without a doubt, a work of rare profundity. The multi-layered and labyrinthine plot is worthy of Raymond Chandler or (more aptly, perhaps) Ross MacDonald. And that's more than mere hyperbole; Koryta is that good...Sorrow's Anthem is so good it'll bring tears to your eyes. And it's good on just about every level; as a crime novel, as a hardboiled mystery, and as a mainstream exploration of choices, consequences and of individual responsibility. In the end, and as far "anthems" go, this one never misses a beat." - Mystery News "Sometimes a book grabs you and stays in your memory long after the rest of the in-box's contents have been flushed away by new arrivals. Michael Koryta's second mystery about Cleveland private eye Lincoln Perry has this kind of hold on me...Dashiell Hammett of Red Harvest would appreciate the tangle of high-level political and police corruption of Sorrow's Anthem, but anyone who mourns for lost friendships will add a more visceral reaction." - The Chicago Tribune "Perry is an appealing fellow, and Koryta is a straightforward storyteller, but the real pleasure here is touring the back streets of C-Town—particularly Perry's boyhood neighborhood, slowly being populated by Hispanics but still home to a diehard, dying "bunch of Poles and Czechs who worked hard and drank harder." Nominated for an Edgar Award for best first novel at the age of 21, Koryta is now 22, but Sorrow's Anthem is no sophomore slump." - The Washington Post "Lincoln Perry and his partner Joe Pritchard are perfectly orchestrated characters...The characters they encounter during their investigation are unique, fully realized and absolutely alive. Ed's mother stood out for me in particular. I don't know how a 22-year-old man could write a middle-aged woman with such precision and empathy. This is an exceptional novel, to my mind every bit as good as MYSTIC RIVER. Buy it. Read it. Give it to your friends. This book just might change the way you think about the private eye novel forever." - ReviewingTheEvidence.com "A gripping tale of high level political corruption, crooked cops and long-held secrets that put Perry's life at risk. Another winner from one of America's top young mystery writers." - The Toronto Sun "Nicely told, with the requisite genre beatings and gunplay reserved for the end and the equally requisite angst, this time over past misdeeds, front and center." - Kirkus Reviews Blurbs: Purchase at Amazon.com

SORROW’S ANTHEM

In the beginning, it was just about the money. Then things got personal.

This is the story that Ed Gradduk tells his best friend, private investigator Lincoln Perry. Ed is on the run, hiding from the police who are looking to arrest him for arson and murder. When Gradduk is killed in a brutal confrontation with the Cleveland police, Perry is shaken. How could this have happened to his friend? With his trademark grit and determination, Perry sets out to understand the forces that brought down Ed Gradduk.

* Named one of the Best Crime Novels of the Year by The Chicago Tribune *

(Book 2 in the Lincoln Perry series)

Rights Information

Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur, Hardcover (February 7, 2006)
St. Martin's, Paperback (January 2, 2007)

Territory: World

Rights Available: Film/TV

Reviews:
"Inspired by Hammett and Chandler, the 22-year-old Koryta (Tonight I Said Goodbye, 2004) displays the maturity of a writer with several novels under his belt, and his plot percolates with crisp dialogue that might impress Chandler himself." - Booklist (Starred review)

"Koryta's impressive second hardboiled mystery is a worthy successor to his debut, Tonight I Said Goodbye (2004), an Edgar and Shamus finalist...The 22-year-old author, who works for a PI and for an Indiana newspaper, displays credible insider knowledge of those professions as well as a gift for creating both sympathetic characters and a fast-moving, twisty plot." - Publishers Weekly

"Koryta achieves just the right balance, letting his plot (and the hot-headed Lincoln's slow and dangerous slide into obsession) unfold slowly, but with a sense of tragic inevitability, allowing readers to determine for themselves what's driving the characters, instead of hitting them over the head with it...I knew, from reading Tonight I Said Goodbye, that Koryta was capable of crafting powerful scenes that reverberate long after the final page has been read (I still remember the melting snowman); but nothing prepared me for the cool assurance he brings to bear in this new story. Not only is the plot of Sorrow's Anthem snappier and more engrossing, and the characters and their motives more fully developed, but the dialogue's tighter and the details sharper. Even better: This time out, the author has something to say. I'm almost afraid to see how good his third one will be." - January Magazine

"Koryta's latest is, without a doubt, a work of rare profundity. The multi-layered and labyrinthine plot is worthy of Raymond Chandler or (more aptly, perhaps) Ross MacDonald. And that's more than mere hyperbole; Koryta is that good...Sorrow's Anthem is so good it'll bring tears to your eyes. And it's good on just about every level; as a crime novel, as a hardboiled mystery, and as a mainstream exploration of choices, consequences and of individual responsibility. In the end, and as far "anthems" go, this one never misses a beat." - Mystery News

"Sometimes a book grabs you and stays in your memory long after the rest of the in-box's contents have been flushed away by new arrivals. Michael Koryta's second mystery about Cleveland private eye Lincoln Perry has this kind of hold on me...Dashiell Hammett of Red Harvest would appreciate the tangle of high-level political and police corruption of Sorrow's Anthem, but anyone who mourns for lost friendships will add a more visceral reaction." - The Chicago Tribune

"Perry is an appealing fellow, and Koryta is a straightforward storyteller, but the real pleasure here is touring the back streets of C-Town—particularly Perry's boyhood neighborhood, slowly being populated by Hispanics but still home to a diehard, dying "bunch of Poles and Czechs who worked hard and drank harder." Nominated for an Edgar Award for best first novel at the age of 21, Koryta is now 22, but Sorrow's Anthem is no sophomore slump." - The Washington Post

"Lincoln Perry and his partner Joe Pritchard are perfectly orchestrated characters...The characters they encounter during their investigation are unique, fully realized and absolutely alive. Ed's mother stood out for me in particular. I don't know how a 22-year-old man could write a middle-aged woman with such precision and empathy. This is an exceptional novel, to my mind every bit as good as MYSTIC RIVER. Buy it. Read it. Give it to your friends. This book just might change the way you think about the private eye novel forever." - ReviewingTheEvidence.com

"A gripping tale of high level political corruption, crooked cops and long-held secrets that put Perry's life at risk. Another winner from one of America's top young mystery writers." - The Toronto Sun

"Nicely told, with the requisite genre beatings and gunplay reserved for the end and the equally requisite angst, this time over past misdeeds, front and center." - Kirkus Reviews

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