THE COLDEST MILE Raised to be a thief and getaway driver, Chase left the bent life after he found his true love, Lila. For ten years he walked the straight and narrow — until Lila was murdered. Now Chase is looking for his grandfather Jonah, the stone-cold-killer con man who raised him anis the last living repository of his family’s darkest secrets. In returning to his criminal roots, Chase hopes to save Jonah’s infant daughter from the life that Chase himself can’t escape. But first he’ll need a score. Chase thinks he’s found it as a driver for a dysfunctional crime family that’s anything but organized. With the Langans’ patriarch dying, the once powerful syndicate may unravel before Chase can rip it off. If he survives the bloodbath to come, he’ll face an even uglier showdown. Because his grandfather Jonah is waiting for him at the coldest family reunion this side of hell. Click here for an excerpt. * 2010 Thriller Award for Best Paperback Original * * One of Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine's favorite crime novels of 2009 * * Nominated for the 2010 International Thriller Writers Thriller Award for Best Paperback Original * (Sequel to THE COLD SPOT) Rights Information Publisher: Bantam, Mass market paperback (February 24, 2009) Territory: World Rights Available: Film/TV Reviews: "Piccirilli’s latest book strips away the occult overtones associated with some of his earlier works (The Night Class won the 2002 Stoker Award) and jumps full bore into hard-boiled crime writing. This guy evokes Jim Thompson and David Goodis in the way he flays away at our illusions that there is comfort to be found in the human condition. What Piccirilli’s masterfully realized protagonist gambles is his last remaining glimmer of dignity—a commodity he isn’t sure he needs or even wants. It’s pedal to the metal...Don’t miss it." - Booklist "Tom Piccirilli provides a satisfying sequel to his Edgar-nominated The Cold Spot with The Coldest Mile (Bantam, $6.99). Chase is a bad guy gone straight once he met Lila, a deputy sheriff that put him on the road to the straight and narrow. But now things have changed and Chase is forced into criminal plans in this twisty crime novel that is as hard-hitting as it is satisfying." - Mystery Lovers Bookshop Blurbs: Purchase at Amazon.com

THE COLDEST MILE

Raised to be a thief and getaway driver, Chase left the bent life after he found his true love, Lila. For ten years he walked the straight and narrow — until Lila was murdered. Now Chase is looking for his grandfather Jonah, the stone-cold-killer con man who raised him anis the last living repository of his family’s darkest secrets. In returning to his criminal roots, Chase hopes to save Jonah’s infant daughter from the life that Chase himself can’t escape.

But first he’ll need a score. Chase thinks he’s found it as a driver for a dysfunctional crime family that’s anything but organized. With the Langans’ patriarch dying, the once powerful syndicate may unravel before Chase can rip it off. If he survives the bloodbath to come, he’ll face an even uglier showdown. Because his grandfather Jonah is waiting for him at the coldest family reunion this side of hell.

Click here for an excerpt.

* 2010 Thriller Award for Best Paperback Original *
* One of Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine's favorite crime novels of 2009 *
* Nominated for the 2010 International Thriller Writers Thriller Award for Best Paperback Original *

(Sequel to THE COLD SPOT)

Rights Information

Publisher: Bantam, Mass market paperback (February 24, 2009)

Territory: World

Rights Available: Film/TV

Reviews:
"Piccirilli’s latest book strips away the occult overtones associated with some of his earlier works (The Night Class won the 2002 Stoker Award) and jumps full bore into hard-boiled crime writing. This guy evokes Jim Thompson and David Goodis in the way he flays away at our illusions that there is comfort to be found in the human condition. What Piccirilli’s masterfully realized protagonist gambles is his last remaining glimmer of dignity—a commodity he isn’t sure he needs or even wants. It’s pedal to the metal...Don’t miss it." - Booklist

"Tom Piccirilli provides a satisfying sequel to his Edgar-nominated The Cold Spot with The Coldest Mile (Bantam, $6.99). Chase is a bad guy gone straight once he met Lila, a deputy sheriff that put him on the road to the straight and narrow. But now things have changed and Chase is forced into criminal plans in this twisty crime novel that is as hard-hitting as it is satisfying." - Mystery Lovers Bookshop

Blurbs:

Purchase at Amazon.com