cover image The Fourth of July Wake

The Fourth of July Wake

Harold Adams. Five Star (ME), $26.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-7862-3000-6

Shamus Award winner Harold Adams brings back his series character Kyle Champion, introduced in When Rich Men Die (1987), for more fun and murderous mischief in The Fourth of July Wake. When the young widow of family patriarch P.J. Krueger decides to hold a party in Krueger's honor over the long July 4th weekend, with disaffected children and a strange neighbor with a violent history in attendance, watch out for fireworks.