Lives Laid Away

The August Snow Series - Book 2

Lives Laid Away


Unabridged

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“Jones’s action-packed book has echoes of Raymond Chandler’s banter and bursts of Dashiell Hammett’s violence…[and] delivers a bracing amount of rough humor and a whole lot of heart.”

Wall Street Journal


Shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger

A Crime Reads Pick of 2019's Most Anticipated Crime and Mystery Novels 

A Literary Hub Pick of Most Anticipated Book of 1029

A BookBub Editors' Pick of Most Anticipated Books of 2019

Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award

Detroit ex-cop August Snow takes up vigilante justice when his beloved neighborhood of Mexicantown is caught in the crosshairs of a human trafficking scheme. When the body of an anonymous young Hispanic woman dressed as Queen Marie Antoinette is dredged from the Detroit River, the Detroit Police Department wants the case closed out fast. Wayne County Coroner Dr. Bobby Falconi gives the woman's photo to his old pal August Snow, insisting August show it around his native Mexicantown to see if anyone recognizes her. August's good friend Elena, a prominent advocate for undocumented immigrants, recognizes the woman immediately. Her story is one the authorities don't want getting around-and she's not the only young woman to have disappeared during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid, only to turn up dead a few weeks later. Preyed upon by the law itself, the people of Mexicantown have no one to turn to. August Snow, ex-police detective, will not sit by and watch his neighbors suffer in silence. In a guns-blazing wild ride across Detroit, from its neo-Nazi biker hole-ups to its hip-hop recording studios, its swanky social clubs to its seedy nightclubs, August puts his own life on the line to protect the community he loves.