One Good Deed

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Call Number: Mystery / Baldacci, David, Adult Book / Fiction / Thriller / General / Baldacci, David
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of dos and a much longer list of donts: do report regularly to his parole officer, don't go to bars, certainly don't drink alcohol, do get a job -- and don't ever associate with loose women. The small town quickly proves more complicated and dangerous than Archer's years serving in the war or his time in jail. Within a single night, his search for gainful employment -- and a stiff drink -- leads him to a local bar, where he is hired for what seems like a simple job: to collect a debt owed to a powerful local businessman, Hank Pittleman. Soon Archer discovers that recovering the debt won't be so easy. The indebted man has a furious grudge against Hank and refuses to pay; Hank's clever mistress has her own designs on Archer; and both Hank and Archer's stern parole officer, Miss Crabtree, are keeping a sharp eye on him. When a murder takes place right under Archer's nose, police suspicions rise against the ex-convict, and Archer realizes that the crime could send him right back to prison... if he doesn't use every skill in his arsenal to track down the real killer.

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A New Protagonist submitted by GJBarnett2 on August 29, 2019, 4:24pm ... , Aloysius Archer, joins Baldacci's repertoire of characters. Well written, suspenseful, surprising, many twists and turns. Marred perhaps mainly by something of a deux ex machine ending. I look forward to reading more of Archer's adventures.