Dead of Winter
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Soho Press , 2021.
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A shadowy Detroit real estate billionaire. A ruthless fixer. A successful Mexicantown family business in their crosshairs. Gentrification has never been bloodier.Authentico Foods Inc. has been a part of Detroit’s Mexicantown for over thirty years, grown from a home kitchen business to a city block–long facility that supplies Mexican tortillas to restaurants throughout the Midwest. Detroit ex-cop and Mexicantown native August Snow has been invited for a business meeting at Authentico Foods. Its owner, Ronaldo Ochoa, is dying, and is being blackmailed into selling the company to an anonymous entity. Worried about his employees, Ochoa wants August to buy it. August has no interest in running a tortilla empire, but he does want to know who’s threatening his neighborhood. Quickly, his investigation takes a devastating turn and he and his loved ones find themselves ensnared in a dangerous net of ruthless billionaire developers. August Snow must fight not only for his life, but for the soul of Mexicantown itself.

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05/04/2021
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English
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9781641291033

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Published Reviews

Booklist Review

Ex-cop and former marine August Snow is devoting himself to real estate, renovating houses in Detroit's Mexicantown, where he grew up. The mixed-race Snow (Mexican American mother and African American father) has acquired the reputation as a defender of the neighborhood's marginalized people (Lives Laid Away, 2019), so it's inevitable that the owner of Authentico Foods, long a neighborhood landmark, would come to Snow when blackmailers attempt to take over his business. Snow's inquiries uncover an audacious scam by a billionaire real-estate mogul to build "ghost houses," properties that vanish from the city's records and become safe houses for mobsters or even terrorists. With hit men in town to eliminate Snow and his friends, it's time to delve deep into the secret arsenal of Snow's gun-crazy Uncle Tomás and put together a home-grown counterassault. Like Walter Mosley and Joe Ide, Jones builds a raucous and endearing cast of characters from his inner-city setting, fusing neighborhood camaraderie with streetwise know-how and head-banging action. This is a fine thriller in the grand hard-boiled tradition, but it's also a sensitive, multifaceted portrait of race in America. As Tatina, August's girlfriend, tells him, "What you feel right now, August, is what every outsider feels from time to time, the weight of having cared too much for a world that cares so little."

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Publisher's Weekly Review

In Hammett Prize winner Jones's gritty third crime novel featuring Detroit PI August Snow (after 2019's Lives Laid Away), Snow gets a call to meet with Ronaldo Ochoa, the terminally ill owner of Authentico Foods, in the city's Mexicantown neighborhood. Ochoa, who employed Snow's mother for decades, is under pressure to sell out to a real estate speculator claiming to represent Vic Bronson, who "made his fortune selling mortgages and collecting adjustable-rate mortgage balloon payments in an overleveraged housing market." When Ochoa is found shot dead in his office and Snow's godfather and best friend, Tomás, is severely wounded, the detective saddles up to investigate and wreak vengeance. He brushes up against Bronson, who responds by sending thugs his way with a message to lay off. It's the wrong approach to take with hometown hero Snow. Readers should be prepared for a surfeit of foul-mouthed dialogue and a massive body count as the action builds to a violent lakeside showdown and troubling but conclusive revelations. Snow remains a distinctive lead capable of sustaining a long series. Agent: Stephany Evans, Ayesha Pande Literary. (May)

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Kirkus Book Review

Ex-cop and philanthropist August Octavio Snow gets backed into a third case that shows once again that all Detroit politics is personal in good ways and bad. As he's dying of lymphoma, Ronaldo Ochoa is pressed to sell his Mexicantown corn and flour business, Authentico Foods, to a shadowy real estate speculator named Sloane, who claims he's fronting for billionaire developer Vic Bronson. Fearing that the buyer, whoever it is, will tear down the place and put up another ghost town of faceless residential buildings that will denature the neighborhood, Ochoa wants to sell the business to Snow--the son of a Mexican mother and Black father--for a third of the price Sloane has offered. It doesn't sound like a good idea to Snow even though he's sitting on the $12 million he was awarded in the wrongful termination suit he filed against the Detroit PD. But Snow can't turn away when Ochoa is killed and his daughter, Snow's old high school crush Jackie Ochoa, begs him for a more familiar kind of help. In no time at all, Snow's up to his neck in civic corruption that reaches as high as City Council President Lincoln Quinn, who'd been a leader in calling for Snow's dismissal. Hardball politics, blackmail, abduction, and beheading will be overlaid atop the city's susurrus of combustible racial strife. The one bright spot is Snow's reunion with German Somali ex-bartender Tatina Stadtmueller, who mitigates her outrage at every vigilante step he takes long enough to join him in a commitment ceremony. Could matrimony be next for the hometown hero who proudly announces, "I'm the Blaxican"? Ignore the tangled plot and enjoy the raucous close-ups and the joyous, unsavory overview of contemporary Detroit. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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Booklist Reviews

*Starred Review* Ex-cop and former marine August Snow is devoting himself to real estate, renovating houses in Detroit's Mexicantown, where he grew up. The mixed-race Snow (Mexican American mother and African American father) has acquired the reputation as a defender of the neighborhood's marginalized people (Lives Laid Away, 2019), so it's inevitable that the owner of Authentico Foods, long a neighborhood landmark, would come to Snow when blackmailers attempt to take over his business. Snow's inquiries uncover an audacious scam by a billionaire real-estate mogul to build ghost houses, properties that vanish from the city's records and become safe houses for mobsters or even terrorists. With hit men in town to eliminate Snow and his friends, it's time to delve deep into the secret arsenal of Snow's gun-crazy Uncle Tomás and put together a home-grown counterassault. Like Walter Mosley and Joe Ide, Jones builds a raucous and endearing cast of characters from his inner-city setting, fusing neighborhood camaraderie with streetwise know-how and head-banging action. This is a fine thriller in the grand hard-boiled tradition, but it's also a sensitive, multifaceted portrait of race in America. As Tatina, August's girlfriend, tells him, What you feel right now, August, is what every outsider feels from time to time, the weight of having cared too much for a world that cares so little. Copyright 2020 Booklist Reviews.

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Publishers Weekly Reviews

In Hammett Prize winner Jones's gritty third crime novel featuring Detroit PI August Snow (after 2019's Lives Laid Away), Snow gets a call to meet with Ronaldo Ochoa, the terminally ill owner of Authentico Foods, in the city's Mexicantown neighborhood. Ochoa, who employed Snow's mother for decades, is under pressure to sell out to a real estate speculator claiming to represent Vic Bronson, who "made his fortune selling mortgages and collecting adjustable-rate mortgage balloon payments in an overleveraged housing market." When Ochoa is found shot dead in his office and Snow's godfather and best friend, Tomás, is severely wounded, the detective saddles up to investigate and wreak vengeance. He brushes up against Bronson, who responds by sending thugs his way with a message to lay off. It's the wrong approach to take with hometown hero Snow. Readers should be prepared for a surfeit of foul-mouthed dialogue and a massive body count as the action builds to a violent lakeside showdown and troubling but conclusive revelations. Snow remains a distinctive lead capable of sustaining a long series. Agent: Stephany Evans, Ayesha Pande Literary. (May)

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Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Jones, S. M. (2021). Dead of Winter . Soho Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Jones, Stephen Mack. 2021. Dead of Winter. Soho Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Jones, Stephen Mack. Dead of Winter Soho Press, 2021.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Jones, S. M. (2021). Dead of winter. Soho Press.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Jones, Stephen Mack. Dead of Winter Soho Press, 2021.

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