What happens when the Boy Detective grows up, moves away, and comes home for a visit? His hometown’s gone from American-as-apple-pie to darkest noir; his once-innocent girlfriend has transformed into something both more and less than she once was; his father has become a bum on the skids—and that’s the least of it. Both parody and tribute to childhood heroes, Brown Harvest turns and twists the fondest memories of characters familiar to anyone who grew up reading detective stories. Drawing on a tradition of borrowing from popular classics that stretches from Shakespeare on, Russell joyfully creates mayhem from colliding the worlds of hardboiled thrillers, young adult mysteries, and classic noir fiction.