Father's Day by Keith Gilman
Father's day is a dark and atmospheric tale of an ex-cop from Philadelphia asked to track down the missing daughter of an old friend. The investigation takes him deep into his past, into the darkest corners of the city where the ghosts of his most painful memories await his return.He uncovers truths about the alleged suicide of his friend, a fellow officer with the Philadelphia police department; truths about the accusations that ended both their careers; truths about the woman who had come between them; truths about the tortured life of the girl he's trying to find and naturally, truths about himself.
Father's Day is a novel with multiple layers of meaning, taught psychological depth, strong noir elements and stark visual imagery. It is a terrifying exploration of the emotions behind our deepest fears.
"Gilman has a cop's eye for detail and a hardboiled humor that can't be faked. A palpable evil fills the pages of FATHER'S DAY that is both terrifying and relentless. Gilman writes sharply and knows where all the bodies are buried; his Philadelphia is worth a visit." -- William Lashner - New York Times bestselling author of A KILLER'S KISS.
"The best fiction has this feeling that someone's just leaned close to whisper in our ear: 'I've something important to tell you.' FATHER'S DAY, Keith Gilman's debut novel has, and sustains, that quality from the first page. You know right away that you're in the hands of a natural and very fine storyteller. Authenticity, voice, the sense of lives beyond the page, all those things we crave as readers and for which we work so hard as writers, tossing the bones, hoping the magic will work -- all are solidly, soundly in place."-- James Sallis, author of Drive and the Lew Griffin series
Keith Gilman is a cop. He was born and raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania and he's been a police officer in the Philadelphia area for over fifteen years. He knows how cops think. He knows what cops know. He's seen things most people only see in their nightmares. He walks the walk and he talks the talk, and in FATHER'S DAY, his debut novel from St. Martin's Minotaur, he pulls back the curtain on his disturbing vision of a decaying urban world, haunted by shadows of deceit and death.
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