The Ace of Spades

<p>In this riveting installment of the acclaimed Luis Mendoza mystery series <em>The Ace of Spades</em> delivers a masterful blend of suspense psychological depth and classic police procedural. Lt. Mendoza specializes in homicides . . . he has brains uncanny flair wealth a passion for justice and Abyssinian cats.</p><p></p><p>When his girlfriend finds her old beat-up jalopy missing there begins a series of seemingly unrelated events that involves Lt. Mendoza in an apparent suicide by drugs a mysterious foreign stranger and a museum heist. </p><p></p><p>As Mendoza grapples with scant clues-A scrap of paper an old coin a mysterious woman-danger lurks both Mendoza and the people he cares about. Mendoza's intuition and methodical investigation leads him to unravel secrets and search for motives and a link between all the seemingly disparate events that are taking place.</p><p></p><p>With her signature style and sharp insight into human nature Dell Shannon-one of the first female authors to break into the hard-boiled detective genre-delivers a taut intelligent mystery that keeps readers guessing until the final reveal. </p>