Terry Orr

This noir-inflected murder mystery carries readers from New York City's most elite precincts to its dirtiest gutters. Two years ago, writer Terry Orr lost his wife and infant son when a lunatic pushed them into the path of a subway train. Dissatisfied with the police response, he's been looking for the killer himself ever since. Somewhere along the way, while raising his precocious daughter and continuing his search, he also becomes a legitimate private eye. First, Terry encounters the brutal murder of a livery cab driver, which he's determined to solve. Then, he's drawn into the world of high art and ruthless ambition after a SoHo gallery is destroyed by a bomb blast. And when the two cases collide, Terry might be fatally out of his depth…

PI Terry Orr returns in this conspiracy and murder in post-9/11 New York from the acclaimed author of Closing Time. Still coping with the death his wife and infant son-and still obsessed with finding the madman who killed them-Terry Orr has kept busy raising his young daughter and working as a private investigator known for solving some of New York City's most baffling cases. Now, at the behest of his housekeeper, Terry is searching for one Sonia Salgado, recently released from prison after serving thirty years for murdering a diamond dealer. Unfortunately, when he finds the woman, she's been murdered herself. Now Terry is determined to discover why. But someone else is determined to stop him no matter what . . . Jim Fusilli pulls readers into the dark streets of a city dealing with the tragedy of September 11, and the mind of a man determined to find justice amid the chaos.

Terry Orr has taken on his share of baffling cases-but he's never worked for a dead man. When his friend Leo Mallard passes away, his last request is for Terry to track down his duplicitous ex-wife who stole the profits from the restaurant they owned together. But as much as Terry wants to honor his friend's request, all his concerns are about to be overshadowed by a shocking discovery. Terry has just found Raymond Montgomery Weisz-the man who killed his wife and son. Finally, he will have his vengeance. But what he learns about that fatal day is far from what he ever expected-and Terry must decide if the truth he's been searching for is worth destroying the life he's spent so long rebuilding . . .