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A New York Times Notable Book: A woman�s suicide leads a man to a Nevada mining town�and a nest of poisonous secrets�in this �top-notch thriller� (Publishers Weekly). There is something about the sad woman eating alone night after night at the Harmony Caf� that intrigues San Francisco CPA Jim Messenger. Unfulfilled himself, Jim feels a kinship with her�and later, when she commits suicide, he resolves to find out why. His search leads him to Beulah, a middle-of-nowhere mining town in the Nevada desert, where hatreds run deep, where secrets are as venomous as a rattlesnake bite, and where a stranger asking too many questions might inexplicably disappear. Still, in this dusty, barren landscape, Jim feels completely alive. And he�s not going anywhere until he uncovers the truth, even if it rips the whole town apart. Richly atmospheric and peopled with achingly human characters, Blue Lonesome is a crime novel as tense and coiled as a rattler ready to strike and as dark and hypnotic as the lonesome desert night.