Midnight Repo on Passyunk Avenue
A 1970s Philadelphia Noir

About this book:

South Philadelphia, 1975. The rain is greasy, the streetlights buzz sickly yellow, and Joey "Hooks" Durante is just trying to make an honest living stealing cars back from deadbeats. But when a routine 3 a.m. repo on a triple-black Cadillac Coupe de Ville puts a corpse in a pinstripe suit in his trunk—and a police scanner in the dash—Joey realizes he hasn't recovered collateral. He's kidnapped evidence in a war he never signed up for.

Now the Mob wants the car, the cops want the driver, and Joey's own tow truck is a neon sign pointing straight to him. With a trunk full of secrets, a glovebox full of cash and a cryptic note, and a family tree rooted deep in the very underworld hunting him, Joey has until dawn to figure out who the dead man really was—and why everyone from a bail bondsman in a broom closet to a capo at Pat's Steaks is willing to kill to keep it buried.

*Midnight Repo on Passyunk Avenue* is a gritty, atmospheric noir that rides shotgun with a working-stiff antihero through the refineries, rowhouses, and back-alley social clubs of 1970s Philly. Sharp dialogue, bone-deep period detail, and a plot that tightens like a ratchet strap make this a must-read for fans of George V. Higgins, Dennis Lehane, and anyone who likes their crime fiction with grease under its fingernails.