Godless Country A Mystery [Hardcover]

Clayton Guthrie is a private fixer for the aristocracy of New York City. His latest job is to protect a Manhattan heiress from a dangerous stalker. He hires retired bodyguard Abraham Swabe to protect her while he runs a trap operation assisted by his young operative, Rachel Vasquez, who juggles her new responsibilities while suffering from the shaky aftereffects of a shootout.

Guthrie and Vasquez pursue the stalker across the city, from watching a quiet townhouse on the Upper East Side, to staking out New York University around Tompkins Square, and even crawling through the grimy industrial guts of Brooklyn. Searching for the stalker's hideout, they learn the identity of one of his previous victims. She was murdered, but the killer is still at large.

Dark, riveting and hardboiled, Hunt's sequel toCuts Through Boneis a thrilling mystery, sure to cement his reputation as one of crime fiction's most promising new authors.

[Hunt] sketched out a story set in New York City, a place he had never visited, and he dreamed up an odd-couple dynamic between Rachel Vasquez, a street-smart teenage operative working for a middle-aged, middle-class detective named Clayton Guthrie&What Hunt executes well&is the character of Vasquez, her sibling tensions and her existential struggles. Sarah Weinman, The New York Times

Sometimes, a crime novel grabs you on the first page with its plot. Sometimes, its the writing. Rarely is it the authors background. But in 'Cuts Through Bone'..., Alaric Hunt hits the trifecta in his debut.

Hunt, a native of Kentucky, has been serving life in prison in South Carolina for arson and murder since 1988. In 2010, he looked through a copy of Writers Market in the prison library and saw a listing for the Private Eye Writers of America contest. The result was his victory for best first private eye novel.

And what a novel....Hunt, absent from the outside world for a quarter century, infuses this novel wlc`