Don't Ever Get Old

This is the first in a one-of-a-kind, spectacularly well-written mystery series featuring Buck Schatz, an eighty-seven-year-old retired Memphis cop with a know-it-all, plugged-in grandson as his sidekick. When Buck learns that an old adversary may have escaped Germany with a fortune in stolen gold, he decides to hunt down the fugitive and claim the loot. But lots of people want a piece of the stolen treasure, and Buck's investigation quickly attracts unfriendly attention from a Mississippi loan shark, a seven-foot-tall Hasidic Jew, and a bloodthirsty maniac hell-bent on rubbing out everybody who knows anything about the stolen gold. Readers who love Elmore Leonard, Walter Mosley, early Jonathan Lethem, and superlative detective fiction in general will not want to miss Don't Ever Get Old. A 2013 International Thriller Writers Award Finalist for Best First Novel. Winner of the 2013 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel. A 2013 Anthony Award Finalist for Best First Novel. A Kirkus Reviews "New and Notable Title", May 2012. A 2013 Edgar Allan Poe Award Nominee for Best First Novel.