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Sleeping Dog by Dick LochteThis beloved, comedy-noir thriller teams up Leo Bloodworth, a hard-drinking, middle-aged Los Angeles PI with hypertension and a low tolerance for precious teenagers, with Serendipity Dahlquist, a bright and strong-willed roller-blading 14-year-old searching for her lost dog. But things quickly escalate, plunging the oddest of odd couples into the dark underworld of sunny Southern California and pitting them against one of the biggest, and most brutal, organized crime families in Mexico.

A New York Times Book of the Year,
Nero Wolfe Award Winner,
Edgar Award Finalist,
Shamus Award Finalist,
Anthony Award Finalist,
Named by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association as one of the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century

SLEEPING DOG is available from Amazon.

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DICK LOCHTE is the bestselling author of over a dozen novels of crime and suspense. His latest noir thriller, BLUES IN THE NIGHT, was named as one of the five best hardcovers of the year by the Private Eye Writers of America. Lochte has written three novels with the Today Show’s Al Roker, including the current THE TALK SHOW MURDERS. He also has co-authored four popular crime novels with attorney Christopher Darden and has written screenplays for such actors as Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen and Roger Moore

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