A Good Rush of Blood by Matt Phillips

A mother's sins haunt a teenage runaway in this scorching mystery of criminal conspiracy, street-level justice, and unlikely courage. Creeley Nash has been running her entire life. That includes running drugs for a wannabe kingpin. On a drug run to Palm Springs—the town where Creeley escaped her no-good mother as a teen—she’ll encounter a sun-drenched facade beneath which lurks a web of dark secrets. A Good Rush of Blood follows Creeley as she unravels the mystery of her estranged mother’s murder conviction. Peopled with bent cops, grizzled reporters, hardened drug dealers, eccentric sidekicks and sexy librarians, this sweaty, fast-paced neo-noir finds stellar noir scribe Matt Phillips (Countdown, Know Me from Smoke) at the apex of his dirty, lethal game.

Adult • Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense • Crime Fiction • Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense/Amateur Sleuths

Content Warning: This is a crime fiction novel with all the requisite darkness, violence, and shady characters. For avid readers of crime and noir.

indieeditorcali

Received an eArc from writer and this is a great independent crime novel. Couldn't put it down. Read in two sittings.

roughneckdispatch

So good and fast paced