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[sufue]

The Surrogate Thief is the fifteenth in Archer Mayor's Joe Gunther series. It's $1.99 right now in the US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001E7IE1A
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-surrogate-thief

Spoiler:

Brattleboro is the epitome of scenic Vermont. Quaint in its architecture and plainspoken in its politics, it dominates the state's southeast corner as both an employment hub and an election year powerhouse-all while looking like a genteel, postindustrial New England mill town. And yet there is darkness here, too, and nobody knows it better than Joe Gunther. Over the years he has battled drug pushers and corporate swindlers, grappled with environmental conspirators, and foiled gangs and home invaders. But while usually successful in his fight for the town's future, Gunther hasn't always come out on top... Thirty years earlier store owner Klaus Ober-feldt was robbed and beaten senseless. When Klaus died six months later, a case of assault and battery became first degree murder. The guilty man eventually appeared to be a well-known, small-time crook, but enough time had elapsed for him to vanish. Gunther, distracted by his wife's losing struggle with cancer in the same hospital where Klaus was slipping from life, did something that would plague him for the rest of his career: He let the case go cold, burying it in the past along with his private sorrows. Now serendipitously reopened, the Ober-feldt investigation forces Gunther to revisit ancient history and open old wounds. Torn between righting the past and confronting his demons, the veteran cop faces the most personal and dangerous case of his career. For somewhere on the idyllic Brattleboro streets stalks a long-lost murderer who never quite disappeared-and with Joe's renewed interest, now has good reason to kill again...

[SomeSteve]

Titan Books, under their Hard Case Crime imprint, has some noir graphic novels (or comics) from a series called Gun Honey on sale at Amazon in various countries. I haven't read any of them, mind you. In fact, I've never heard of them, and I didn't know they existed until today, but Ed Brubaker assures us on the covers that they are "the finest kind of pulp noir." 'Nuff said.

People warn not to judge a book by its cover, but I suspect that these covers will give you a fairly accurate idea of what you're getting into before you buy, thereby sparing you any rude awakenings, and a gander at the previews couldn't hurt, either.

I'll only give a couple of US links.

There are two collections for around $6 or €7 each:

Gun Honey Vol. 1 (Collects Gun Honey #1-4.)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09HV8T4CL

and

Gun Honey Vol.2: Blood for Blood (Collects Gun Honey: Blood for Blood #1-4.)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BCH23GX6

These are also available as individual issues at around $1 or €1 per issue, so purchasing them as individual issues is actually a little cheaper.

A third installment, Gun Honey: Heat Seeker, only came out as a collection in January, and isn't reduced as much, so buying this series as individual issues at around $1 or €1 each is a far better deal. Here's the link to issue #1 (of 4).

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXBC1GVN