NEVER ONE TO HOLD A GRUDGE, ALTON RHODE DECIDES TO HELP A HOOKER WHO ALMOST GOT HIM KILLED. SHE WANTS TO KNOW WHO MURDERED HER GRANDFATHER IN A SMALL SOUTHERN TOWN WITH AN ICE PICK "If you like strong characterizations, great dialogue and surprises, Pulitzer-nominee Lawrence De Maria's Alton Rhode mysteries are in a class by themselves." - JOHN CRUDELE (New York Post)"A master of thriller dialogue." (WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF...