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Fiction, Crime & mystery
The third book in the incredibly sharp crime series, featuring roguish recluse Virgil Cain
In upstate New York, Virgil Cain is drawing hay when two movie scouts appear from nowhere and offer him $500 a day to use his horses in their film. In need of cash, Virgil reluctantly pockets the money, but the chaotic movie set soon proves more trouble than it's worth.
With a talent-challenged director vying for authority with a lecherous inves tor and casino owner called Ronnie Red Hawk, the atmosphere is tense. But when the film's leading lady turns up dead, Virgil realises that far more is at stake than the making of a blockbuster movie. While his natural inclination is to leave the whole bunch to stew in their own juices, he suspects that charming ten-year-old actress Georgia is next, and he just can't let that happen, even if it does throw him into a world of danger.
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Praise for Shoot The Dog
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Wonderfully wrought characters, delicious wit, and droll storytelling make this a delightful romp - Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Genuinely entertaining - Booklist
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It's been a very long time since I discovered a crime novelist as fine as Brad Smith. He is a master storyteller, witty, chilling, and witheringly good. I absolutely love his books. Virgil Cain is a character for the ages - Douglas Preston, NYT bestselling author
Brad Smith
Brad Smith was born and raised in the hamlet of Canfield, southern Ontario. As a child, he had a Huck Finn existence, before working for the Canadian National Railway, where he got the chance to work in South Africa. Upon returning, Smith worked all over the place - Alberta, British Columbia, Texas - at a variety of jobs: farmer, signalman, insulator, truck driver, bartender, schoolteacher. He eventually settled on carpenter, and still works as one when not writing. He now lives in an eighty-year-old farmhouse near the north shore of Lake Erie. As well as the Virgil Cain trilogy, Smith has written five other novels.
www.bradsmithbooks.com
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