Hard Cash Valley, Brian Panowich
Hard Cash Valley, Brian Panowich
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Hard Cash Valley
A Novel

Author: Brian Panowich

Narrator: Brian Troxell

Unabridged: 12 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/05/2020


Synopsis

Return to McFalls County and Bull Mountain in Hard Cash Valley, where Brian Panowich weaves another masterful tale of Southern Noir.

Dane Kirby is a broken man and no stranger to tragedy. As a life-long resident and ex-arson investigator for McFalls County, Dane has lived his life in one of the most chaotic and crime-ridden regions of the south. When he gets called in to consult on a brutal murder in a Jacksonville, Florida, motel room, he and his FBI counterpart, Special Agent Roselita Velasquez, begin an investigation that leads them back to the criminal circles of his own backyard.

Arnie Blackwell’s murder in Jacksonville is only the beginning – and Dane and Roselita seem to be one step behind. For someone is hacking a bloody trail throughout the Southeast looking for Arnie’s younger brother, a boy with Asperger’s Syndrome who possesses an unusual skill with numbers that could make a lot of money and that has already gotten a lot of people killed—and has even more of the deadliest people alive willing to do anything it takes to exploit him.

As Dane joins in the hunt to find the boy, it swiftly becomes a race against the clock that has Dane entangled in a web of secrets involving everyone from the Filipino Mafia to distrusting federal agents to some of hardest southern outlaws he’s ever known.

A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books

"The plotting is skilled, as is the sleuthing, and the landscape is stunning. But it’s the hard-jawed characters, with their tough talk and scarred souls, who really get under your skin." -- New York Times Book Review

About Brian Panowich

Brian Panowich is an award winning author, a Georgia firefighter, and a father to four incredible children. His first novel, Bull Mountain, was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, ITW Thriller Award winner for Best First Novel, Southern Book Prize winner, and a finalist for both the Anthony and the Barry Awards. He lives in Georgia with his family.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Susanne on May 14, 2020

5 Incredible Stars Dark, Troubling and Suspenseful Grit Lit! Living. It means something different to everyone, whether it’s about drugs, money, hard work, family, love or loss. In McFalls County, Georgia, living ain’t easy. Never has been, never will be. It’s about desperate times and desperate measu......more

Goodreads review by Debra on March 06, 2020

4.5 stars Read it! Nuff said... But...I'll give you my thoughts nevertheless... Hard Cash is a dark gritty tale about desperation, greed, drugs, money, family, loss...you name it. Panowich is a genius at writing Southern/Country/crime noir that is both gritty, suspenseful, dark and moving. His character......more

Goodreads review by Karen on April 09, 2020

4.5 Another winner by Brian Panowich! The writing is amazing! We are taken back to McFalls County and Bull Mountain where we met Dane Kirby, a lifelong resident and former ex-arson investigator with a tragic family history, is called in to consult on a murder investigation. Unforgettable characters..g......more

Goodreads review by karen on September 15, 2020

this takes place in the same world as Bull Mountain, The Broken King, and Like Lions, but while it's a standalone, meaning your appreciation of it isn’t necessarily contingent upon your having read the others, you should read those nonetheless simply because they are brilliant examples of character-......more