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Books by DiFranco Murray
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DiFranco Murray lives in the Chicago area. Writes the Melvin Malloy mystery series, darkly comic adventures set in the Pacific Northwest. These include The Youngest Boy, Released, Portrait of Samantha, and his most recent, Down on 59th Avenue.
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Down on 59th Avenue by DiFranco Murray
In the Seattle slums, Malloy teams with a gang task force detective, known on the streets as "the Buddha," to investigate a murder. When they uncover a drug-trafficking operation, the gangsters will stop at nothing to keep their business strong, but the Buddha will stop at nothing to take them down. |
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The Sunspot Murders by DiFranco Murray
In a world where the rich buy justice and the poor rent despair, gumshoe Melvin Malloy walks the rainy streets of Portland searching for truth. Is there a connection between a series of seemingly unrelated murders? Only one object has the answer: the sun. Could an increase in solar activity really drive a man to murder? Ask a werewolf on a full moon. |
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Portrait of Samantha by DiFranco Murray
Melvin Malloy reluctantly takes a case on behalf of his girlfriend. Soon he discovers that the client, while professing his innocence, is the man behind it all — and Malloy's the fall guy! Will he be able to nab the client before he flees the country, clear his name in the eyes of both the police and his lover, or will they send him to prison for murder? |
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Hired Gun by DiFranco Murray
When he's blamed for the murder of a man he's been hired to protect, Melvin Malloy has 24 hours to outwit a bounty hunter, outrun a hit man, and clear his name. |
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Released by DiFranco Murray
Nothing is as it seems when a parolee Melvin Malloy did time with shows up at his doorstep. Claiming he was framed, Bruno Kelly wants revenge on the people who put him behind bars. The only problem? He doesn't know who did it. |
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The Youngest Boy by DiFranco Murray
An alcoholic PI is unwittingly sent on a wild goose chase for information that could clear a friend of murder. His search for the truth leads him into the dregs of Seattle society: prostitutes, crack addicts, Vietnamese gangsters. When it seems like his leads have dried out, a dying man whispers four words: "Find The Youngest Boy." |
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