It’s time to friendship or justice? Our favourite loveable cop Lt. Andy Bastian is back for his second scintillating case. This time, he heads a gritting and gruesome search for the man who violated a teenage beauty and left her just intact enough to someday tell the tale. But when his best friend becomes the number-one suspect in the case, Andy becomes one of the star legal attractions. Without an alibi, things look bad for Andy’s friend – but can Andy offer to help him and keep his integrity intact..? Set in the 1960s, A Nice Girl Like You is a pacey, introspective thriller about a cop struggling with in his new suburban community. The second in the gripping Lt. Andy Bastian series, and a must-read for fans of Ross MacDonald and John le Carré. ‘Realistically told… carefully controlled, fast paced’ – Kirkus Reviews ‘The cleverest plot I’ve seen this season… You’d better read it’ – The New York Times ‘Enormously readable. Watch out for any new book by this author’ – Morning Telegraph Richard Wormser (1908-1977) was an award-winning American author best known for pulp fiction, crime and Westerns. Originally from New York City, he moved to California to become a rancher in the 1930s, before eventually settling in Arizona with his wife.
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Richard Edward Wormser was an American writer of pulp fiction, detective fiction, screenplays, and Westerns, some of it written using the pseudonym of Ed Friend. He is estimated to have written 300 short stories, 200 novelettes, 12 books, many screenplays and stories turned into screenplays and a cookbook Southwest Cookery or At Home on the Range. After graduating from Princeton University he became a prolific writer of pulp fiction under his own name, the pen name of Conrad Gerson, and wrote seventeen Nick Carter novels for Street & Smith. Wormser's first crime fiction novel was The Man with the Wax Face in 1934. His first Western novel was The Lonesome Quarter in 1951. During World War II he served as a forest ranger. Wormser won Western Spur Awards for juvenile fiction for Ride a Northbound Horse in 1964, and for The Black Mustanger in 1971. He also won an Edgar award for best original paperback novel for The Invader in 1973.
