Give Up the Dead: A Jay Porter Novel [Paperback]

2018 Anthony Award Nominee

The American Dream is great as long as you don't wake up.

Three years have passed since estate-clearing handyman Jay Porter almost lost his life following a devastating accident on the thin ice of Echo Lake. His investigative work uncovering a kids-for-cash scandal may have made his hometown of Ashton, New Hampshire, a safer place, but nothing comes without a price. The traumatic, uncredited events cost Jay his wife and his son, and left him with a permanent leg injury. Jay is just putting his life back together when a mysterious stranger stops by with an offer too good to be true: a large sum of cash in exchange for finding a missing teenage boy who may have been abducted by a radical recovery group in the northern New Hampshire wilds. Skeptical of gift horses and weary of reenlisting in the local drug war, Jay passes on the offer. The next day his boss is found beaten and left for dead, painting Jay the main suspect. As clues begin to tie the two cases together, Jay finds himself back on the job and back in the line of fire.

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Joe Clifford is a novelist with a large fan base, and active social media presence
Author has his own radio show and popular blog
Joe Clifford writes about the down-and-dirty aspects of lifehe has experienced them (from homeless junkie to successful author)
Give Up the DeadfollowsDecember BoysandLamentationin the Jay Porter series
For fans of Dennis Lehane'sMystic River
Author is media friendly and an experienced guest
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