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Jon A. Jackson
Jon A. Jackson
La Donna DetroitLa Donna Detroit Newpbk 21 Feb 02
Hit on the HouseHit on the House
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About the Author
Bibliography


New British Pbk Original - Canongate Crime (2002)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk La Donna Detroit
A compelling, impossible-to-predict page-turner, La Donna Detroit brings Detective Sergeant `Fang’ Mulheisen into the nerve centre of Detroit’s mob.
Mob princess Helen Sedlacek was last seen heading west with millions in Mafia cash and the scalp of its godfather, Carmine. Carmine’s successor, Humphrey DiEbola, immediately loosed the hounds of hell on her. Now, in an abrupt about-face, he has welcomed Helen back into the fold and offered her redemption.
Humphrey seems to be grooming Helen to become La Donna . . . but when a quiet basement poker game at Humphrey’s compound leaves all hands dead, Mulheisen smells a rat - to the great dismay of everyone involved.
Wry and note-perfect, La Donna Detroit brings Mulheisen head-to-head with the mob’s most intimate face and confirms Jon A. Jackson’s stature as a master.
‘Jackson makes the hard-boiled form look as if he thought it up himself last week’ Newsday
‘Funn, hard-boiled and original. Literary Review
‘The writing is pithy and electric, with the kind of off-kilter characterisation rarely found in British crime fiction.’ Crime Time
‘Perhaps the toughest, most darkly comic, consistently superior American procedural on the market… Anyone who sits on the hard-boiled side of the aisle and hasn’t yet met Fang Mulheisen is in for a rare treat’ Booklist
‘For once comparisons are merited: mention of Jon A. Jackson in the same sentence as Charles Willeford is deserved.’ Guardian
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British Pbk Original - Canongate Crime (2000)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk Hit on the House
The Mafia chieftains of Detroit are being systematically bumped off.
Big Sid, Frosty Tubman and Billy Conover - all slain brutally and nobody can finger the killer.
In an atmosphere of intense underworld paranoia, Hit on the House follows twin investigations to uncover the identity of the hit-man.
One is by the wry, existential Detroit cop, Detective Sergeant 'Fang' Mulheisen. The other by a sexually-charged, quasi-androgynous hit-man for hire, Joe Service, retained by what is left of the mob hierarchy to dispense with the threat.
But who will get there first?
'How long can Jon A. Jackson remain the best-kept secret of hard-boiled crime fiction connoisseurs?' The New York Times
‘Jackson is becoming the most plausible candidate tot inherit the mantle of the great Charles Willeford’ Associated Press
‘Hit on the House is an unqualifiably brilliant novel’ Jim Harrison
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About The Author
Jon A. Jackson is one of the most accomplished and acclaimed crime writers working in America today. Hit on the House is his first novel to be published in the UK and gives British readers the opportunity to check out "the best-kept secret of hard-boiled crime fiction connoisseurs".

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Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

  • La Donna Detroit (Canongate Crime Pbk, 2002) New Pbk Feb 02 (Fang Mulheisen)
  • Hit on the House (Canongate Crime Pbk, 2000) (Fang Mulheisen)
  • The Diehard
  • The Blind Pig
  • Grootka
  • Deadman
  • Dead Folks
  • Man with an Axe

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