Thomas Adcock: Thrown-Away Child (2020) From the Publisher: And this won't be a peaceful visit for Hock. In a city famed as much for its corruption as its cuisine, he'll become entangled in a web of not only family secrets but also politics and murder, dealing with a preacher, a scamming alderman, and even some voodoo, with only a little time left over to attend a jazz funeral or take in the other city sights... Thomas Adcock: Thrown-Away Child. A Neil Hockaday Mystery. MysteriousPress.com / Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781504060004 (January, 2020), eBook, 5.9 MB (ca. 339 p.), $11.99.
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Thomas Adcock: Thrown-Away Child (2013) From the Publisher: While in New Orleans to meet the family of his new wife, actress Ruby Flagg, Neil Hockaday was expecting the good times to roll. Instead, Hock encounters the dankest pits of the big easy and demons of his own. When Ruby's cousin Perry Duclat is suspected of murdering his former cellmate at Angola penitentiary whose mutilated body was found branded with a bizarre acronym, MOMS, Hock teams up with a disenchanted New Orleans cop to conduct a highly unofficial investigation. During his time in Louisiana, Hock faces a cast of only-in-New-Orleans characters, including a scamming alderman, hypnotic preacher, and a cryptic old jazz funeral man, Joe Never Smile, whose legendary horses weep tears when they pull hearses through the sad streets of an enigmatic city. Thomas Adcock: Thrown-Away Child. Gallery Books, ISBN: 9781476763019 (August, 2013), 369 p., $23.99.
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Thomas Adcock: Thrown-Away Child (1997) From the Publisher: In New Orleans to meet the family of his new wife, African-American actress Ruby Flags, Hock expects the good times to roll. Instead, he and Ruby are swept up in a pungent Creole stew of family secrets, sour politics, ritual murder, and bittersweet revenge. Hock encounters the dankest pits of the Big Easy, demons of his own, and a cast of only-in-New-Orleans characters, including a scamming alderman, a hypnotic preacher, and Joe Never Smile-a cryptic old jazz funeral man whose legendary horses weep tears when they pull hearses through the sad and gaudy streets of an enigmatic city. Thomas Adcock: Thrown-Away Child. Pocket Star Books, ISBN: 0671519840 (September, 1997), 369 p., $5.99.
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Thomas Adcock: Thrown-Away Child (1996) From the Publisher: Now the Edgar Award-winning author whose social-minded, shamrock Catholic NYPD detective is rapidly becoming one of the genre's most popular characters, brings us his fifth Nell Hockaday mystery. Set in New Orleans, the hometown of Hock's new wife, black actress Ruby Flagg, THROWN-AWAY CHILD is a pungent Creole stew of family secrets, sour politics, ritual murder, and bittersweet revenge. "In a dark time, the eye begins to see." Nell Hockaday says, recalling Theodore Roethke's haunting poem. "I have noticed, for instance, that evil in the world is of possibly more use than good. Naturally we require darkness in order to see." And in sun-scorched New Oricans, Hock notices a severe lack of light. Hoping for respite from his hard-drinking past in Manhattan, Hock travels to the fabled Land of Dreams with Ruby to meet her close-knit family. Hardly have the newlyweds arrived when the peaceful home of Hock's mother-in-law, Violet, is disrupted by two racist cops hunting for Ruby's cousin Perry Duclat, who has been living with Violet since his mother abandoned him. Now this thrown-away child is a grown and troubled man, wanted for murder. The victim is Perry's former cellmate at Angola penitentiary, whose mutilated body has been branded with a bizarre acronym - MOMS. When Perry disappears, Hock teams up with a disenchanted New Orleans cop to conduct a highly unofficial Investigation. Before justice is finally done, there are more brutal murders - and more brandings. Among the slain: a little boy so alone in the world he can only guess at his name. Besides the terrible murders, Hock must resolve personal quandaries: the meaning of Ruby's unsettling emotions about returning to her southern roots, and his own future - if any - with the New York Police Department. From Tchoupitoulas Street to Poydras, in the soggy beat and rain as gray as a graveyard, soulful Detective Neil Hockaday encounters the darkest pits of the Big Easy, demons of his own, and a cast of only-in-New Orleans characters, including Hippocrates Giradoux, a scamming city alderman, Zebediah Tilton, a hypnotic, creamy-voiced preacher, Huggy Louper, a taxi driver who proclaims himself "not honest, but reliable", and Joe Never Smile, a cryptic old jazz funeral man whose legendary horses weep tears when they pull hearses trough the sad and gaudy streets of an enigmatic city. Thomas Adcock: Thrown-Away Child. A Neil Hockaday Mystery. Pocket Books, ISBN: 0671519859 (April, 1996), 340 p., $21.00.
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