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White Lightning: Prohibition and Predators

By Melissa Yi & Melissa Yuan-Innes
White Lightning: Prohibition and Predators by Melissa Yi & Melissa Yuan-Innes digital book - Fable

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FROM HOOCH HIGHWAY TO HOMICIDE

Hope Sze escapes for a romantic weekend away at the Rumrunner's Rest, a Roaring Twenties inn once celebrated both for Prohibition's best alcohol and the smoothest jazz bands north of the Detroit River.

Then a convention of fictional villains overrun the tavern, her friend glimpses a ghost, and Hope uncovers a grisly surprise in the fireplace that may be related to Al Capone, the infamous gangster.

At least two people disappeared from this very inn, and one soul will not rest in peace.

Tonight, unless Hope unravels a century's worth of clues, death will collect several more lives. Including the one she holds most dear.

 

"A masterfully distilled, 180 proof thriller." —Nathalie Gamache, MD and The Gin*eco*logic Artisan Distiller

 

"A mysterious and moving story that I found entirely compelling on every page." —Rosamund Small, Dora Award-winning playwright 

 

"I never thought a medical thriller could have ALL the villains. I was wrong. Stuffed with menace and humor, pop culture and Prohibition, and a villain as meticulous as the heroine is smart, Yi has done it again." —Michael Warren Lucas, author of Git Commit Murder

 

Praise for the Hope Sze series

Silver Falchion Award Finalist for Best Thriller: Scorpion Scheme
#1 Mystery Selection—CBC Books: Human Remains. Recommended authors also include Louise Penny and Maureen Jennings

One of the best Canadian suspense books recommended by Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail: Human Remains

"Smart and sassy."—Jim Napier, Reviewing the Evidence

One of the best crime novels of the season.—CBC Radio's The Next Chapter Mystery Panel: Stockholm Syndrome

"The three intertwining mysteries and Hope herself provide a narrative by turns entertaining and insightful."—Publishers Weekly: Terminally Ill

"Narrating in a sprightly style while sharing some of the nitty-gritty of a resident's job, Hope Sze is an utterly likeable character."—Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

"Melissa Yi is a talented writer."—Murder in Common

"Drawing on her personal experiences in the ER in Canada, Yi has created medical thrillers that shine with authenticity and are impossible to put down."—Kris Nelscott, New York Times bestseller

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