false 28564 9 John Pellam, scouting locations for a new film in a small town in Missouri, inadvertently witnesses a double homicide and some serious gunplay that left a cop paralyzed. He didn't see the guy who ordered the killings, but the police don't believe him. The U.S. attorney who thinks he knows who was behind the murders has bet his career on Pellam's identification of a criminal the feds have been trying to nail for years. They'll do anything to get Pellam's cooperation, including threatening his new girlfriend, shutting down the movie, and keeping Pellam from inking a deal to get his own film made. That project is Pellam's ticket back to the top of the heap in Hollywood, a perch he fell off of when he supplied the drugs that killed his best friend. The cops want Pellam's testimony, the mob boss wants him permanently silenced, and the film's director wants him to finish the job he's been paid to do. But first Pellam has to find his way out of the traps they've all set for him, and he does it with style, wit, and a self-deprecating charm that makes him a hero to everyone--well, almost everyone.<p> William Jefferies, who usually writes under the better-known nom de plume of Jeffery Deaver, has a couple of other Location Scout mysteries to his name (<I>Shallow Graves</I>, <I>Hell's Kitchen</I>). Pocket Books has reissued them as Deaver titles ("writing as William Jefferies"), but regardless of their provenance, they feature topnotch writing, snappy dialogue, solid pacing, and excellent characterization. <I>Bloody River Blues</I> was overlooked by Deaver's fans when it first came out eight years ago. Now that the publisher has cleared up the mystery of who actually wrote it, it ought to get the attention it deserves. <I>--Jane Adams</I> 2660581 1993 Bloody River Blues (John Pellam, #2) total:78|5:13|4:17|3:32|2:15|1:1| 78 260 135 3 2 0 false false Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 09:31:43 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 07:30:39 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 09:58:14 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 08 22:14:48 -0700 2007 ]]> 3 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Aug 31 12:31:51 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 24 11:03:01 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Nov 06 10:54:57 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 10:54:59 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Nov 03 19:54:25 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 19:54:40 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 14:57:19 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 14:57:29 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sun Oct 25 05:22:29 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 05:22:29 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Oct 13 21:21:54 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 21:21:54 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Oct 12 19:08:51 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 19:08:51 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 08 10:48:22 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 10:48:22 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Sun Sep 27 06:59:37 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 06:59:37 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Sep 20 05:20:01 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 05:20:01 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Oct 05 11:11:15 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 07:31:45 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 11:11:15 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Sep 03 09:25:44 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 09:25:44 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Sep 01 05:11:57 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 05:11:57 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Aug 30 18:13:53 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 18:13:53 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Aug 28 06:35:04 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 06:35:04 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Aug 26 13:25:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 13:25:00 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Fri Aug 21 11:29:57 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 11:29:57 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Aug 21 08:23:18 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 08:23:18 -0700 2009