A Hard Ticket Home, David Housewright
A Hard Ticket Home, David Housewright
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A Hard Ticket Home

Author: David Housewright

Narrator: Brent Hinkley

Unabridged: 7 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/10/2020


Synopsis

Ex–St. Paul cop Rushmore McKenzie has more time, and more money, than he knows what to do with. In fact, when he’s willing to admit it to himself (and he usually isn’t), Mac is downright bored. Until he decides to do a favor for a friend facing a family tragedy: nine-year-old Stacy Carlson has been diagnosed with leukemia, and the only one with the matching bone marrow that can save her is her older sister, Jamie. Trouble is, Jamie ran away from home years ago.Mac begins combing the backstreets of the Twin Cities, tracking down Jamie’s last known associates. He starts with the expected pimps and drug dealers, but the path leads surprisingly to some of the Cities’ most respected businessmen, as well as a few characters far more unsavory than the street hustlers he anticipated. As bullets fly and bodies drop, Mac persists, only to find that what he’s looking for, and why, are not exactly what he’d imagined.David Housewright’s uncanny ability to turn the Twin Cities into an exotic, brooding backdrop for noir fiction, and his winning, witty hero Rushmore McKenzie, serve as a wicked one-two punch in A Hard Ticket Home, a series debut that reinforces Housewright’s well-earned reputation as one of crime fiction’s stars.

About David Housewright

David Housewright is the author of mystery and detective novels, including the Holland Taylor series and the PI McKenzie mysteries. He has won the Edgar Award and is the three-time winner of the Minnesota Book Award for his crime fiction. He is a past president of the Private Eye Writers of America.

About Brent Hinkley

Brent Hinkley was born on April 12, 1962 in East Boston, Massachusetts. He is an actor, known for The Silence of the Lambs, Ed Wood, and Falling Down.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Christine on September 16, 2017

This book landed on my TBR list about a year ago because it is written by a Minnesotan and takes place in the Twin Cities area. It’s always fun to read a novel that is set in familiar territory. A couple of weeks ago I saw that the author would be participating in a five-author panel at my local lib......more

Goodreads review by Eric_W on March 02, 2014

Faced with the possibility of having to turn in an embezzler and come away with nothing or leave the police department and collect a huge finders fee from the insurance company, St. Paul detective Rushmore MacKenzie chooses the latter. Now he works similar to Lawrence Block’s Scudder: he has no lice......more

Goodreads review by Glen on April 15, 2014

First book in the Rushmore MacKenzie series tells the origin tale of our hero. Mac's bored, and decides to help an acquaintance find his daughter, who ran away from home seven years ago. It seems fairly straightforward, but within hours of starting the investigation, people start tying to kill Mac, a......more

Goodreads review by Maureen on October 14, 2024

Why 5 you ask? OMG let me tell you the ways. This is the very first in this series, with the first one coming out in 2004. Ah... the good old days , when dective stories were... well detective stories. Good stories , not a bunch of crap that is coming out today. Anyway-- this guy Mac was a police of......more

Goodreads review by Laurel on December 06, 2010

I needed another quick and easy read in between book club books, and this fit the bill. This is the first book in the series. I don't think it mattered too much that I had read the second one first. Again, I liked the quick pacing, the humor, and the local flavor. Too much violence to call it a "coz......more


Quotes

“Sharp…Exciting.” Publishers Weekly

“Captivating.” Booklist