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A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2019A CrimeReads Most Anticipated Crime & Mystery Novel of 2019A BookBub Most Anticipated Mystery Novel of 2019Praise for Lives Laid Away"August Octavio Snow is a big Detroit booster . . . Stephen Mack Jones picks up his gung-ho protagonist where the author left him in his first novel, August Snow—cleaning up his beat-up neighborhood in Mexicantown."   —The New York Times Book Review "Jones’s action-packed book has echoes of Raymond Chandler’s banter and bursts of Dashiell Hammett’s violence, with a tip of the porkpie hat to Walter Mosley. What’s more, Lives Laid Away delivers a bracing amount of rough humor and a whole lot of heart." —Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal  "A terrific story . . . The setup allows Jones to deliver some stinging observations about our current immigration policies, leavening his heavy themes with a judicious amount of dry humor." —Adam Woog, The Seattle Times "Packed with local color and references, this book will have you on the edge of your seat. It’s an action-packed mystery novel that is both familiar and surprising."  —Detroit Free Press "Jones proves he’s just at home writing crime fiction in Detroit as Loren D. Estleman and the late Elmore “Dutch” Leonard . . . Get ready for a different kind of snowstorm." —Dearborn Press & Guide "August Snow brings diversity to the genre and the stories are both gritty and clever. The Detroit setting is beautifully done. He takes a seat right alongside other great Michigan private eye writers like (Estleman) and Steve Hamilton. I’m hoping this is going to be a very long-lived series." —Robin Agnew, The Oakland Press "A clever, punchy tale set in one of today’s more romantic locales: Detroit. A city climbing back from ruin is a great backdrop for redemptive stories like this one, about a native who is renovating houses on his childhood street to try and rebuild the neighborhood he grew up in. Stephen Mack Jones is also a playwright and a poet, which means he knows how to make every word count . . . Heart and muscle aplenty." —The Raleigh News & Observer"August Snow combines strength, vulnerability, and resolve — all necessary to the construction of a hero. Snow’s sense of honor is a liability in certain parts of Detroit — as it is most places — but the thought of abandoning it is never on the table. Razor-sharp characterization, an engaging style, and Jones’s intimate knowledge of Motor City culture give us hope for an enduring series and many years of entertainment."  —Loren D. Estleman, author of the Amos Walker novels "An old-fashioned, guns a-blazing ripsnorter—and boy, are its pulp roots showing." —Mystery Scene Magazine "This is noir as it was meant to be: incisive, socially conscious, distinctly situated, and told with real style."   —Literary Hub "Detective fiction needs a shot in the arm every now and again. That was the feeling of reading Stephen Mack Jones . . . The August Snow series is as promising as any crime fiction to come around in a long while, tapping into the iconoclasm and social justice streaks of midcentury noirs, but taking them in a modern direction, exposing human trafficking rings, abuses of immigrant communities, gentrification, and economic declines and revivals. It’s heady, exhilarating stuff."  —CrimeReads "Terrific." —Seattle Review of Books "A giddy, heart-stopping read whose distinctive, vibrant characters come at you full throttle, no holds barred . . . A toast to Stephen Mack Jones, one of the coolest crime writers on the current scene." —Irma Heldman, Open Letters    "It's hard to believe this is only the second mystery from [Jones]—with a well tangled plot, excellent pacing, and the deft mixture of toughness and generosity in his protagonist, August Snow, this is a terrific new book and a great series."—Kingdom Books "Superior . . . August Snow is an uncompromising crusader with a sense of humor reminiscent of Robert Parker's Spenser. He merits a long literary life." —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review"Hard-driving noir, with a strong dose of neighborhood camaraderie; for read-alike comparisons, think Easy Rawlins and his close-knit L.A. neighborhood meet Jack Reacher." —Booklist "Operatically violent and hilariously funny, with dialogue to die for. I'll read whatever Stephen Mack Jones writes." —Timothy Hallinan Praise for August SnowWinner of the 2018 Nero AwardWinner of the Hammett Prize for Crime FictionFinalist for the 2018 Shamus AwardStrand Magazine Critics Awards Best First Novel NomineeA 2018 Michigan Notable BookA Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2017    “August Snow is one of my favorite books that I’ve read recently, and I’m not just saying that . . . This book is so good, I actually put it down, and I briefly entertained the notion of moving back to Detroit.” —Nancy Pearl, NPR’s Morning Edition “[A] witty, mayhem-packed first novel . . . Snow’s own voice has echoes of Raymond Chandler’s. Be assured that when the showdown comes, Snow—an action-hero with the heart of a mensch—and his crew prove up to that task.”  —The Wall Street Journal “Stephen Mack Jones’s rock-solid debut, August Snow, is powered by the outgoing personality of the title hero and his deep affections for his hometown of Detroit. [Jones] proves himself a natural entertainer.”  —Chicago Tribune  “Jones, a Detroit-area poet and playwright brings the city, its environs, and its eateries to vital life in a mystery coiled around the contemporary crime du jour of cyber-finance meddling. His is that rare tale that, despite its thriller-level violence, maintains a fiercely warm heart at its core—and ends far too quickly.”  —The Boston Globe  “[A] polished, gripping debut. Poet Stephen Mack Jones’ novel bristles with energy, compassion, humor and a page-turning plot.”  —Minneapolis Star Tribune

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About the Author

Stephen Mack Jones is a published poet, an award-winning playwright, and a recipient of the prestigious Hammett Prize, the Nero Award, and the Kresge Arts in Detroit Literary Fellowship. He was born in Lansing, Michigan, and currently lives in the suburbs of Detroit. He worked in advertising and marketing communications for a number of years before turning to fiction. August Snow was his first novel.

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Product details

Series: An August Snow Novel (Book 2)

Hardcover: 312 pages

Publisher: Soho Crime (January 8, 2019)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1616959592

ISBN-13: 978-1616959593

Product Dimensions:

5.7 x 1 x 8.5 inches

Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.2 out of 5 stars

19 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#99,493 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

This is the second book in the series that I have read. This author is so good. The story is so tight, the flow of the action and the characters in the event is spot-on. And at the very end I was surprised and amazed and so clear set this was a righteous in me.I am a character and relationship person. These stories are built on these factors. And I am a Detroit girl. Only left home after college. Have such great memories of that City before the big trouble. This writer brings me back to Detroit, great things I remember and the sense of its New Life in these days.The mix of crime and neighborhood and government agencies and some of the worst aspects of Michigan come together in a great story.And the writing is damn good. But maybe I said that already.

As an old Detroiter, I found Mr. Jones' descriptions of the lower West side engrossing and poignant and mostly accurate. His characters real and realistic. His treatment of the old north side and the Edison Park district are also captivatng. My wife's family loved there. He has room in whatever the rubber issue will be to spend a lot more time on the East side. My cousin who lives in GP Farms says it's still nice. We used to go to the Farms Pier to swim in the summer. My dad taught me how to swim by throwing me in the boat well. By the way, there was a Licavoli at Macchus' Red Fox with Jimmy and the Giacalone brothers. I loved both of his books. Looking forward to the third.

This is about the good people of the inner city about whom no suburbanite knows anything. It's a very well told tale.

Good for lovers of the knight, spiced with salsa, an urban renewal in literature, and yet an old fashioned private dick novel

Neo-Nazi bikers...thugs who look like they only eat glass and babies... the madam of an S&M cathouse...a priest who hides and transports undocumented immigrants...a skittish teenage girl hacker — these are some of the characters we meet in Lives Laid Away.Ex-cop August Snow is as wild and weird as any of them. Half Black and half Hispanic, he makes wonderful salsa. He’s also a dead shot and a black belt in karate — fully equipped for action. And there’s plenty in this book.Snow takes on the job of foiling a trafficking operation out of sheer goodness of heart. The victims are supposedly scooped up by ICE for deportation — but in reality, kidnapped for trafficking.Gunfights abound. It’s kind of hard to believe that Snow and friends can get away with roughing up and killing so many bad guys. But I went along with it, because shoot-outs mixed with karate moves are hard to resist.Also, the writing is lively, spiced with street wit and quotes from Bogart and the Bible. The author has a great sense of place too, so that I felt very present in his Detroit. The reign of terror by ICE in ethnic neighborhoods is vividly described.Stephen Mack Jones has a lot of raw talent, perhaps a bit undisciplined, but he’s fun to read.

Former Marine, ex-cop and self-described "rakishly handsome Blaxican," August Snow is the hero of "Lives Laid Away," in this sequel to the author's first mystery novel. When the book begins, he's received a hefty payout from a court case resulting from an incident while on duty and is staying busy perfecting his homemade salsa, taking martial arts lesson and keeping an eye on his neighbors who are being hassled by ICE. When August gets wind of an even bigger potential ongoing crime in his Michigan area home, i.e. human trafficking, after the body of an unidentified young girl dressed as Marie Antoinette washes ashore, he swings into action, along with several other assistants, including Jimmy, his young handyman and neighbor; Tomas, the brawn to his activist wife's Elena's brains; and Ogilvy, a seemingly harmless British man with a penchant for doing yoga on his front porch. August also receives help from Lucy, a Native American hacker whiz and Lady B, whose doughnut shop owner exterior is deceptively benign. With their support, he's well-equipped to take on the underworld of strip clubs, drug dealing and other sleazy doings, which provide clues to identifying who is responsible for the murders of undocumented young women. However, since this involves putting their lives in danger repeatedly, August and his crew will need to have all their wits about them to crack the case and secure justice, however imperfectly.Thoughts: The book starts off intriguingly with a main character who's hardened from his combat experience and tenure as a cop but has a not-so-hidden compassionate streak for the underdog, plus a lot of quirky interests and habits. His neighbors and friends are well-drawn and mostly sympathetic, even when they decide to take justice into their own hands (and hence break the law). However, the author does have an agenda, i.e. championing open borders, which may mar the enjoyment for readers who have an opposite position on the subject. Also, I didn't personally care for the overdone brutality; it seemed like almost every encounter with the bad guys ended with a bullet or an impromptu amputation of a digit.Overall, this is an absorbing mystery, if you have a strong stomach for violence.

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