Dr. Andrew Carpenter is a pediatric cardiologist and
a researcher, whose most promising work involves using embryonic stem cells to repair heart damage
in infants. He’s been receiving threatening messages from the ‘Party of God’, a fundamentalist group
militantly opposed to such ‘Godless labors’—and now he’s dead, killed in a hit-and-run on the streets
of Manhattan. His devastated wife is sure it was murder, but the police think it was an accident.
Enter private eye Nathaniel Singer, a detective with a literary bent and a penchant for honesty.
While once Singer dreamed of being a poet, he has discovered that his true calling is the art of saving
lives. He soon finds out that the Party of God were not the only enemies Dr. Carpenter had, as the list
of suspects grows to include jealous colleagues and a brutal cop who insists that Singer drop the case...
An Irving Howe with an uppercut, this literate, funny detective takes his place within the great
tradition of the PI novel—a worthy successor to Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe and Robert B.
Parker’s Spenser.
About the Author
Raymond Miller is the nom de plume of a writer who lives in New York.
This is his first Nathaniel Singer novel.
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The Critics Praise:
“A fresh new take on a classic structure—like hearing a twelvebar
blues played by
a great new talent.”
Lee Child
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