Fifty Grand A Novel of Suspense
Detective Mercado of the Havana Police department is devastated when she learns that her father’s been killed in a mysterious hit and run accident – in Fairview, an affluent little mountain town in Colorado, of all places. So she reluctantly does what any good daughter would: smuggles herself out of Cuba and goes to Fairview, where she’s got seven days to find her father’s killer, exact revenge, and return home before the Cuban authorities catch on. But in a town teeming with vacationing celebrities, Mexican indentured servants, drug dealers, and a sadistic local sheriff’s minions, she’ll have to comb through a long cast of suspects to find the man responsible for her father’s death. Adrian McKinty’s Fifty Grand is an explosive tale of retribution.
FictionThrillersMystery & DetectiveWomen Sleuths
RELEASED2010
PUBLISHERPicador
LENGTH320
LANGUAGEEN
Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. He studied law at Warwick University and politics and philosophy at Oxford University. In the early 90's he emigrated to New York City where he worked in bars, building sites and bookstores for seven years before moving to Denver, Colorado to become a high school English teacher. In 2008 he moved again, this time to Melbourne, Australia with his wife and kids.
Fifty Grand A Novel of Suspense
Detective Mercado of the Havana Police department is devastated when she learns that her father’s been killed in a mysterious hit and run accident – in Fairview, an affluent little mountain town in Colorado, of all places. So she reluctantly does what any good daughter would: smuggles herself out of Cuba and goes to Fairview, where she’s got seven days to find her father’s killer, exact revenge, and return home before the Cuban authorities catch on. But in a town teeming with vacationing celebrities, Mexican indentured servants, drug dealers, and a sadistic local sheriff’s minions, she’ll have to comb through a long cast of suspects to find the man responsible for her father’s death. Adrian McKinty’s Fifty Grand is an explosive tale of retribution.
FictionThrillersMystery & DetectiveWomen Sleuths
RELEASED2010
PUBLISHERPicador
LENGTH320
LANGUAGEEN
Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. He studied law at Warwick University and politics and philosophy at Oxford University. In the early 90's he emigrated to New York City where he worked in bars, building sites and bookstores for seven years before moving to Denver, Colorado to become a high school English teacher. In 2008 he moved again, this time to Melbourne, Australia with his wife and kids.
