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Bad City Blues

by Tim Willocks · 1997

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Willocks's first novel introduces the characters Cicero Grimes and Clarence Jefferson, who were developed in "Bloodstained Kings". Grimes is a freelance psychiatrist and one-man detox unit in the white-trash Deep South. Jefferson is a corrupt and sadistic police captain.

Genre
thrillerthrillerMore like thisLess of thiscrimecrimeMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 270 pages

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