Roses are Dead (Peter Macklin, The Nine-to-Five Killer, Book 2) [Hardcover]

Loren D. Estleman (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: John Curley & Associates, Inc (February 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0792705882
• ISBN-13: 978-0792705888
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,811,777 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Since the appearance of his first novel in 1976, Loren D. Estleman has written more than 65 books and hundreds of short stories and articles. Alone (Dec 2009, Forge Books) is the second in a new series about L.A. film detective Valentino, and features Greta Garbo.

To kick off the new decade, Estleman's The Book of Murdock (eighth in the U.S. Deputy Marshal Page Murdock series) will appear in March and, to celebrate the 30 year anniversary of Private Detective Amos Walker, The Left-Handed Dollar will publish in December. It's the 20th novel in the award-winning series.

An authority on both criminal history and the American West, Estleman has been called the most critically acclaimed author of his generation. He has been nominated for the National Book Award and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award.

He has received seventeen national writing awards: four Shamuses from the Private Eye Writers of America, five Spurs from the Western Writers of America, two American Mystery Awards from Mystery Scene Magazine, two Outstanding Mystery Writer of the Year awards from Popular Fiction Monthly, two Stirrup Awards for outstanding articles in the Western Writers of America magazine, The Roundup, and three Western Heritage Awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. In 1987, the Michigan Foundation of the Arts presented him with its award for literature. In 1997, the Michigan Library Association named him the recipient of the Michigan Author's Award. In 2007, Nicotine Kiss was named a Notable Book by the Library of Michigan.

Estleman graduated from Eastern Michigan University in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Journalism. On April 27, 2002, EMU presented him with an honorary doctorate in letters. He left the job market in 1980 to write full time. He lives in Michigan and is married to writer Deborah Morgan. For more information, please visit his website: www.lorenestleman.com

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5.0 out of 5 stars Roses are dead, May 28, 2004

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bernard haines (philadelphia,pa.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roses are Dead (Peter Macklin, The Nine-to-Five Killer, Book 2) (Hardcover)

This is the second of the Peter Macklin suspense series. It is a very good story. It shows that in Detroit of the 1980's even Mafia Hitmen have troubles. Pete Macklin's Wife after discovering that her husband's eficiency expert job was really that of a hitman takes steps to divorce him,he is served papers,he obtains his boss's attorney [Klieg] and escapes a retaliatory asassination attempt on his way to protect Klieg's niece from a pornographer. A japanese asassination attempt on him misfires. He is taken to the cleaners by his wife when he is divorced. The hijackers of the Bobolo incident's boss has a killer on his trail and the attempt on his life delays him causing klieg's nice to be killed. He learns that the pornographer and his stalker are a team. He tracks them down and terminates their contracts.

4.0 out of 5 stars Who do you hire to hit a hitman?, January 7, 2012

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Watson McFestus "Watson McFestus" (Irving Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Roses are Dead (Peter Macklin, The Nine-to-Five Killer, Book 2) (Hardcover)

The second in the Peter Macklin crime suspense series. A mysterious criminal entity hires several hitmen to take out retired mobster assassin Macklin. Not at the high level of Estleman's first Macklin novel of suspense - Kill Zone - but good enough in it's own way.