Fifty Grand - Adrian McKinty

Adrian McKinty

Category: Crime

Narrator: Paula Christensen

Tags: Crime, Thriller, Adults

This knockout punch of a thriller from a critically acclaimed author follows a young Cuban detectives quest for vengeance against her fathers killer in a Colorado mountain town, A man is killed in a hit-and-run on a frozen mountain road in the town of Fairview, Colorado. He is an illegal immigrant in a rich Hollywood resort community not unlike Telluride. No one is prosecuted for his death and his case is quietly forgotten., Six months later another illegal makes a treacherous run across the border. Barely escaping with her life and sanity intact, she finds work as a maid with one of the employment agencies in Fairview. Secretly, she begins to investigate the shadowy collision that left her father dead., The maid isnt a maid. And shes not Mexican, either. Shes Detective Mercado, a police officer from Havana, and shes looking for answers: Who killed her father? Was it one of the smooth- talking Hollywood types? Was it a minion of the terrifying county sheriff? And why was her father, a