{"product_id":"9781624882432","title":"The Immaculate Deception: A Tom Sullivan Mystery","description":"\"A Chandleresque noir detective tale featuring an ex-cop turned private eye, set among the gritty motels and palatial estates of Los Angeles. Sullivan is depicted as a first-person narrator in the Philip Marlowe mold-a smart-mouthed shamus, a gumshoe who's seen it all. Like Marlowe, he's at heart a decent, moral man in a world where such people are rare. At book's end, readers may wonder about Sullivan's fate, but they can take heart in the book's subtitle: A Tom Sullivan Mystery. Sully's not going anywhere anytime soon.\" ~ Kirkus Reviews\u003cp\u003eFrom the dust-jacket:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the classic tradition Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett comes a new voice in American Noir. With the Tom Sullivan Mysteries, author William James Royce adds an off-beat, charismatic new detective to the mystery genre and a contemporary slant on the age old tale of greed and murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story begins in a confessional booth as private detective Tom \"Sully\" Sullivan makes his confession. Quickly losing blood from a bullet in his side, Sully tells his story, confessing to the murder he has just committed and revealing the identity of the person who may have murdered him... \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSully is hired by Sam Collier, a rich and powerful man, to find the young surrogate mother carrying the heir to his vast fortune. He follows the twists and turns, ultimately exposing a complex case of \"embryo-napping.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Immaculate Deception is a tale of life and death and all things in between.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BookBaby","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182645756144,"sku":"9781624882432","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781624882432_p0.jpg?v=1763863097","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781624882432","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}