In late 1943, Miki Matsumoto, a beautiful Japanese teenager who has been in hiding since escaping from an internment camp, is working as Riley’s secretary in gratitude for his rescuing her from a vicious kidnapper. Miki’s sinister uncle threatens to kill the gumshoe and his girlfriend, Lauren Lewis, unless they disclose Miki’s location. Meanwhile, a boxing manager hires Riley and his best friend Clip to protect Fighting Freddy Freeman, whose life has been threatened on the eve of a bout that could land him a chance to take on heavyweight champ Joe Louis. THE GIRL WHO CRIED BLOOD TEARS, a Jimmy Riley Noir Novel from award-winning and bestselling author Michael Lister Lister’s hard-edged prose ranks with the best of contemporary noir fiction. Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review. Walk the mean streets of wartime Panama City with Jimmy Riley, a wounded, woman-haunted knight errant in Michael Lister’s resonant new noir series Publisher’s Weekly calls a promising private detective series set in 1940s Florida, and Library Journal says peppered with snappy dialog, this hard-boiled mystery by award winner Lister is a swell read.
Michael Lister has the world of Florida Panhandle noir all to himself. Tough, violent, and hard-boiled, This novel of obsession and suspense will remind you of Raymond Chandler, Graham Greene, and why you started reading crime novels in the first place. John Dufresne