Mister Clarinet

Uncorrected Proof. 8vo. Pp. xiii, 538. Pictorial wraps.

Stamped "Proof/Damaged" to f.f.e.p., else Fine. Scarce Proof.

Winner of the 2006 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award for best thriller, the International Thriller Writers Award and the Macavity Award, both for best first novel in 2007. The French translation, Tonton Clarinette, won the 2009 SNCF Prix du Polar. A Gumshoe Award Nominee for Best First Novel and a Barry Nominee for Best British Novel. Debut thriller set in Miami and Haiti. Former cop turned private eye Max Mingus is hired by the wealthy Allan Carver to trace his young son Charlie, who went missing on the island of Haiti three years earlier. "Terrifying, exhilarating, breathlessly compelling." –Daily Express