A Hard Ticket Home

A Hard Ticket Home by Housewright, David. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780312321499.

Ex-St. Paul cop Rushmore McKenzie has more time, and more money, than he knows what to do with. In fact, when hes willing to admit it to himself (and he usually isnt), Mac is downright bored. Until he decides to do a favor for a friend facing a family tragedy: Nine-year-old Stacy Carlson has been diagnosed with leukemia, and the only one with the matching bone marrow that can save her is her older sister, Jamie. Trouble is, Jamie ran away from home years ago. Mac begins combing the backstreets of the Twin Cities, tracking down Jamies last known associates. He starts with the expected pimps and drug dealers, but the path leads surprisingly to some of the Cities most respected businessmen, as well as a few characters far more unsavory than the street hustlers he anticipated. As bullets fly and bodies drop, Mac persists, only to find that what hes looking for, and why, are not exactly what hed imagined. David Housewrights uncanny ability to turn the Twin Cities into an exotic, brooding backdrop for noir fiction, and his winning, witty hero Rushmore McKenzie, serve as a wicked one-two punch in A Hard Ticket Home, a series debut that reinforces Housewrights well-earned reputation as one of crime fictions rising stars.