Prelude to a Scream (45 page)

ALSO BY JIM NISBET AVAILABLE FROM THE OVERLOOK PRESS

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978-1-59020-198-5
Paperback • $14.00

A brilliantly noir mystery from the author of
Lethal Injection
, never before published in English.

Spider's Cage
sees the return of Martin Windrow, the detective first introduced to readers in
The Damned Don't Die
(“a super thriller” —
Los Angeles Times
). When Jodie O'Ryan, the country singer he adores, disappears after the death of her grandfather, a millionaire oil man, Windrow sets off on their trail. Strangers and storytellers cross his path: friendly tarantulas, a Verlaine-reading prostitute, an androgynous bodyguard, a pimp-entrepreneur-singer, a Salvadorean revolutionary, a car salesman hooked on tranquilizers, a cop who treats the common cold with cocaine cut with amphetamines … Windrow travels from surprise to nightmare, and from body to body, up until the dark-as-night finale.

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