Scott Phillips
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Scott Phillips
- 2001 Anthony-1st Novel nominee
- 2001 Barry-1st Novel nominee
- 2001 Dagger shortlist
- 2001 Edgar-1st Novel nominee
- 2001 New Blood Dagger shortlist
- 2000 Hammett nominee
- Score: 36.51
Loaded guns, ladies of the night, broken neon, broken dreams. Here is a world that is immediately recognizable—through a shot glass at three A.M. This is life with rough edges, in a novel that gives you the straight goods—point blank— one cold, snowbound Christmas Eve in Kansas. One single night, defined in shadings of black and white, when everything changes…
For most, the city is closing up. For a few outsiders, this night, Christmas Eve 1979, is just beginning. Charlie Arglist is a lawyer saying goodbye to Wichita by revisiting the landscape of his used up…
