Giveaway
2 copies available
What a great way to celebrate my return from vacation! This one was waiting in my mailbox for review, and Judy at Doubleday/Random House has offered us two copies to giveaway. Justin Peacock is a new author for me. The Random House author information page says
JUSTIN PEACOCK received an MFA from Columbia University and a law degree from Yale. Prior to attending law school, he worked as an online producer at the New York Times. His legal experience ranges from death-penalty defense to First Amendment cases. He lives in Brooklyn.This is What they say about the book:
From the author of the Edgar Award–nominated legal thriller A Cure for Night, an ambitious and compulsively readable novel set in the cutthroat world of New York real estate.
A concrete floor three hundred feet up in the Aurora Tower condo development in SoHo has collapsed, hurling three workers to their deaths. The developer, Roth Properties (owned by the famously abrasive Simon Roth), faces a vast tangle of legal problems, including allegations of mob connections. Roth’s longtime lawyers, the elite midtown law firm of Blake and Wolcott, is assigned the task of cleaning up the mess. Much of the work lands on the plate of smart, cynical, and seasoned associate Duncan Riley; as a result, he falls into the powerful orbit of Leah Roth, the beautiful daughter of Simon Roth and the designated inheritor of his real estate empire.
Meanwhile, Riley pursues a seemingly small pro bono case in which he attempts to forestall the eviction of Rafael Nazario and his grandmother from public housing in the wake of a pot bust. One night Rafael is picked up and charged with the murder of the private security cop who caught him, a murder that took place in another controversial “mixed income” housing development being built by . . . Roth Properties. Duncan Riley is now walking the knife edge of legal ethics and personal morality. Blind Man’s Alley is a suspenseful and kaleidoscopic journey through a world where the only rule is self- preservation.
The New York Times Book Review said of A Cure for Night that “[Peacock] heads toward Scott Turow country . . . he’s got a good chance to make partner.” This taut, topical, and socially alert thriller delivers on that promise.
So here are the rules for the giveaway:
- For one entry, leave a comment telling me whether you've read this author before. Include your email address (no email no win).
- For an extra entry, leave a separate comment telling me you're a follower (or become one and let me know).
- For another entry, make a separate entry telling me you blogged about the giveaway, (sidebars are fine) and LEAVE ME THE LINK to the posting (if I don't get a link, the entry doesn't count).
- Since I don't twitter, tweet, or FB, you can get extra entries by visiting my blog every day, and leaving a comment about the current post. Just leave your comment on the contest post and tell me something about that day's post. Say "daily entry and the date and blah blah blah about the daily post." If I didn't post that day, then say "no post yet today."
- US addresses only, no PO Boxes.
- Deadline is Oct 10 -noon EDT.
This is a new author to me. The book does sound really good though.
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I've never read this author. This sounds like a story I would enjoy! Thank you for the giveaway!
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This is a new author for me.
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Justin Peacock is also a new to me author! So glad to have the chance to win, it looks good.
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2.He is a new mystery author for me.
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3. Edgar award nominated means he's a darn good author of mysteries.
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I haven't read anything by this author yet. But I would love to read this book. Please enter me. Thanks!
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This is new author for me. His book looks interesting.
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