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Topaz Moon

by Ed Lynskey
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Topaz Moon is a hard-boiled crime novel set in the fictitious town of Emerald Shire, Virginia. Hondo Gunn, an early middle-aged criminal attorney, feels lonely while Aggie Essex is a twentysomething editor who also lives and works there. They bump into each other at the post office, and this time the sparks fly between them. The rub is Hondo worked as an attorney for the mobster don Drake Hardcastle and his daughter Maeve in Chicago some twenty years before. Maeve and Hondo were lovers who forged a long-term pact where he could leave gangland Chicago, if he agreed to serve as her consigliere when she became the top crime boss. Desperate to eject from the mob, he grabs her offer, bizarre to most but not to her. Drake has died, and Maeve, now in charge, wants Hondo to honor their pact. Except having gone straight, he’s freaked by tangling again with her in mobster Chicago, preferring to stay in Emerald Shire with Aggie.

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    March 14, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9781937530617

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 16, 2013
      A wildly improbable plot and characters who all share the same sophomoric values mar this noir standalone from Lynskey (Lake Charles). In sleepy Emerald Shire, Va., Aggie Essex, a 26-year-old office worker still scarred by the death of her parents in a plane crash when she was six, becomes involved with Hondo Gunn, a 49-year-old lawyer haunted by his past as a Chicago mob lawyer and a so-called "love pact" made with the mob boss's hard-driving daughter, Maeve Hardcastle, 20 years earlier. Maeve, who has since replaced her father as boss, sends Hondo e-mails demanding that he honor their pact and return to Chicago to be her lover and lawyer. Readers should be prepared for strained prose (e.g., "She pressed shut her soppy eyelids, a squinch left sore by the seepage to her bitter tears") as Lynskey goes over the top to create a showdown between Hondo's new infatuation and his old Chicago flame.

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