Shoot The Dog
By Brad Smith
2020
First Published
4.11
Average Rating
230
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From the author of Crow’s Landing and Red Means Run comes the third novel in the Virgil Cain series – a riveting mystery revolving around the discovery of a movie star’s body near the Hudson River. In upstate New York, Virgil Cain is drawing hay behind his team of massive Percherons when two movie scouts show up and offer $500 a day to use the horses in a film to be shot in the area. Virgil, in need of cash, reluctantly pockets the money, but he soon finds the chaotic set of Frontier Woman to be more trouble than it’s worth. Savvy producer Sam Sawchuk is in over her head; when she’s not propping up her talent-challenged husband-cum-director, she’s trying to keep tabs on a new investor, the Native American casino owner Ronnie Red Hawk, a rambling egomaniac with designs on an infamous starlet. When the film’s leading lady turns up dead, Virgil discovers that more is at stake than the carnal interests of a casino magnate and the production of a major motion picture. And although he’d rather leave the whole bunch to stew in their own juices, he realizes he needs to step in before a charming ten-year-old actress named Georgia becomes the next victim. Praise for Brad 'Brad Smith has got the goods - he’s funny, poignant, evocative, and he tells a blistering tale. A writer to watch, a comet on the horizon' – Dennis Lehane 'Country noir doesn’t get much better' – Library Journal 'Stellar... Wonderfully wrought characters, delicious wit, and droll storytelling make [Shoot the Dog] a delightful romp' – Publishers Weekly Brad Smith was born and raised in southern Ontario. He has worked as a farmer, signalman, insulator, truck driver, bartender, schoolteacher, maintenance mechanic, roofer, and carpenter. He lives in an eighty-year-old farmhouse near the north shore of Lake Erie. Red Means Run, the first novel in his Virgil Cain series, was named among 2012’s Best Crime Novels by Booklist.
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Author
Brad Smith
Author · 15 books
Brad Smith was born and raised in southern Ontario. He has worked as a farmer, signalman, insulator, truck driver, bartender, schoolteacher, maintenance mechanic, roofer, and carpenter. He lives in a eighty-year-old farmhouse near the north shore of Lake Erie. His novel, "One-Eyed Jacks" was nominated for the Dashiell Hammett Prize. Some of his books that have been published include One-Eyed Jacks (2000), All Hat (2003), Busted Flush (2005), Big Man Coming Down The Road (2007), Red Means Run (January 2012) and Crow's Landing (August 2012). Follow Brad on Facebook at http://on.fb.me/uQYcIw.
