Briarpatch [Paperback]

America's best storyteller. The New York Times Book Review

From Edgar Award-winning author Ross Thomas comesBriarpatch, a thrilling mystery of one mans personal mission to find justice for his family. Now, the basis for the USA Network television series executive produced by Sam Esmail, creator ofMr. Robot,starring Rosario Dawson.

A long-distance call from his small Texas hometown on his birthday gives Benjamin Dill the news that his sister Felicityborn on the same day exactly ten years aparthas died in a car bomb explosion. She was a homicide detective who had perhaps made one enemy too many over the course of her career.

Unwilling to let local law enforcement handle the investigation, Dill arrives in town that night to begin his dogged search for his sisters killer. What he finds is no surprise to him as he begins to unravel town secrets, because Benjamin Dill is never surprised at what awful things people will do.

Featuring an Introduction byNew York Timesbestselling author Lawrence Block

Edgar Award Winner for Best Novel

Praise for Ross Thomas

America's best storyteller.The New York Times Book Review

Very few...are as consistently entertaining...even fewer can match him for style and power. The New Yorker

It's good to see the world again through Ross Thomas' cool, clear gaze.Los Angeles Times

Quintessential Thomas...that is about as high a compliment as a piece of popular fiction could be given...you can't put the damn thing down. The Washington Post Book World

Among the many pleasures of reading it, one of the most satisfying is simply to watch Thomas juggling -- and never once dropping -- two complicated plots. The Washington Post

Plenty of sound-like-real-world dialogue, an edgy sense of menace, and a pip of a plot that wastes l(