{"product_id":"0888072525979","title":"Halloween Howls: Fun \u0026 Scary Music (Dlx)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Intimate, mysterious, magical...as accomplished and compelling as anything I've read in recent years.\" —\u003cb\u003eT.C. Boyle\u003c\/b\u003e, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Harder They Come\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Beautifully conceived and beautifully written...rendered with a strong, confident voice that is so rare in a first novel.\" —\u003cb\u003ePercival Everett\u003c\/b\u003e, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eAssumption\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlready struggling to keep their tiny congregation afloat, two Mormon missionaries stationed in the dangerous Latin American neighborhood of Vila Barbosa suspect the worst when Marco Aurelio, a man they recently baptized, disappears from a crowded street market. When the neighborhood's corrupt police force shows no interest, Elder Toronto and Elder Schwartz decide to investigate Marco Aurelio's disappearance themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBreaking mission rule after mission rule, the elders doggedly pursue any clues that might lead them to their friend. As they interview the people who knew him—his short-tempered, bodybuilding brother; his gun-toting ex-wife; his mercurial former business partner—a tangled portrait emerges of an enigmatic con artist in over his head. At the edges of the investigation lurks a shadowy, mythical figure known only as the Argentine, a man who poses an increasingly dire threat to the two young missionaries as they plunge recklessly forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTim Wirkus' \u003ci\u003eCity of Brick and Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e is a fantastically fun ride, recasting the classic buddy-cop dynamic in a pair of hapless young missionaries; a gripping and unconventional mystery along the lines of \u003ci\u003eThe Yiddish Policemen's Union\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eMotherless Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Universal Music Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50095924576496,"sku":"0888072525979","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/0888072525979","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}