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008			240319s2024 nyu 000 1 eng
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020			_a9781250904218 _q(hardcover) : _c$28.00
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC
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050	0	0	_aPS3616.I914 _bT76 2024
082	0	0	_a813/.6 _223
100	1		_aPitts, Delia C., _d1950- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aTrouble in Queenstown / _cDelia Pitts.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bMinotaur Books, _c2024.
300			_a312 pages : _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
510	4		_aPublishers Weekly, _cMay 13, 2024
510	4		_aBooklist, _cJune 01, 2024
510	4		_aKirkus Reviews, _cJune 01, 2024
510	4		_aLibrary Journal, _cApril 01, 2024
520			_a"With Trouble in Queenstown, Delia Pitts introduces private investigator Vandy Myrick in a powerful mystery that blends grief, class, race, and family with thrilling results. Evander "Vandy" Myrick became a cop to fulfill her father's expectations. After her world cratered, she became a private eye to satisfy her own. Now she's back in Queenstown, New Jersey, her childhood home, in search of solace and recovery. It's a small community of nine thousand souls crammed into twelve square miles, fenced by cornfields, warehouses, pharma labs, and tract housing. As a Black woman, privacy is hard to come by in "Q-Town," and worth guarding. For Vandy, that means working plenty of divorce cases. They're nasty, lucrative, and fun in an unwholesome way. To keep the cash flowing and expand her local contacts, Vandy agrees to take on a new client, the mayor's nephew, Leo Hannah. Leo wants Vandy to tail his wife to uncover evidence for a divorce suit. At first the surveillance job seems routine, but Vandy soon realizes there's trouble beneath the bland surface of the case when a racially charged murder with connections to the Hannah family rocks Q-Town. Fingers point. Clients appear. Opposition to the inquiry hardens. And Vandy's sight lines begin to blur as her determination to uncover the truth deepens. She's a minor league PI with few friends and no resources. Logic pegs her chances of solving the case between slim and hell no. But logic isn't her strong suit. Vandy won't back off"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aPrivate investigators _vFiction.
650		0	_aMurder _xInvestigation _vFiction.
655		7	_aMystery fiction. _2gsafd
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