The Odds Book

The Homicide Department is upside downâ??Richard Christie is in the hospital, Artie Dolan is headed away on vacation, John Potockiâ??s life is falling apart, and Colleen Greer is so worried about her bossâ??s health, she can hardly think. A young boy in Pittsburghâ??s North Side neighborhood dies of a suspicious overdose. The Narcotics police are working on tips and they draft Colleen and Potocki to help them. In this same neighborhood, four young kids have been abandoned and are living on their own. The Philips kids, brainy in school, are reluctant to compromise themselves. But they need cash. Connecting these people and their stories is Nick Banks, just out of prison and working off a debt to an old acquaintance involved in the drug trade. Nick is a charmer, a gentle fellow whoâ??s had a lot of trouble in his life. One day he gives free food to the Philips kids, little guessing how connected their lives are about to become. Kathleen Georgeâ??s latest work pushes the edgeâ??a spectacularly original crime novel.Read More