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Red Dog: A Novel
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Pitbull fighters, shadowy ne’er-do-wells, and murder mark Jason Miller’s wry, darkly atmospheric second novel in his Little Egypt series—perfect for fans of Frank Bill and Greg Iles.

One hot summer day, in his home in the southern Illinois coal country known as Little Egypt—a Midwest Gothic wonderland of barren vistas, sinister hollows, petty corruption, and deeply strange characters—the self-appointed “redneck detective” known as Slim gets a visit from a shady-looking pair who introduce themselves as Sheldon Cleaves and his son, A. Evan, looking to hire him to find a missing dog. As a miner with a reputation for “bloodhounding”—tracking down missing persons the police can’t find or won’t—Slim is accustomed to looking for people, not pets. On the other hand, he needs the cash to fix his air conditioner. But when he pulls the thread that leads to the Cleaveses’ red-haired purebred pitbull—and then the dognapper is discovered with his head blown off—Slim finds himself plunged into a world of underground dogfights and white supremacists. . .  all because he just wanted to get cool.
As bitingly funny as it is starkly violent, Red Dog marks the emergence of a new, gritty voice in detective fiction. 

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Pitbull fighters, shadowy ne’er-do-wells, and murder mark Jason Miller’s wry, darkly atmospheric second novel in his Little Egypt series—perfect for fans of Frank Bill and Greg Iles.

One hot summer day, in his home in the southern Illinois coal country known as Little Egypt—a Midwest Gothic wonderland of barren vistas, sinister hollows, petty corruption, and deeply strange characters—the self-appointed “redneck detective” known as Slim gets a visit from a shady-looking pair who introduce themselves as Sheldon Cleaves and his son, A. Evan, looking to hire him to find a missing dog. As a miner with a reputation for “bloodhounding”—tracking down missing persons the police can’t find or won’t—Slim is accustomed to looking for people, not pets. On the other hand, he needs the cash to fix his air conditioner. But when he pulls the thread that leads to the Cleaveses’ red-haired purebred pitbull—and then the dognapper is discovered with his head blown off—Slim finds himself plunged into a world of underground dogfights and white supremacists. . .  all because he just wanted to get cool.
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        "Miller's second novel certainly has the country environment nailed down with vivid scenery and realistic dialogue . . . Using a mixture of real town and fictional spots, Miller's view of Little Egypt, in the southern third of Illinois, evocatively shows how a regional mystery can incisively explore an area." — Washington Post

        "In Miller's funny follow-up to 2015's Down Don't Bother Me . . . Slim cracks wise, gives and takes beatings and insults, and gets just enough help to survive in this tale sure to please fans of light regional mysteries." — Publishers Weekly

        There is great pleasure in Miller's way with words...and hats off to a devilishly clever plot. A nice mix of hard-boiled action and Holmes homage. — Booklist

        "'Red Dog' maintains a canny balance of weirdness, violence, compassion for animals and black humor." — The Seattle Times

        "Red Dog is just the right combination of mystery and cynical humor to captivate the reader until the last page. I can't wait to read the next one! ... F*cking fantastic." — Julie Kedzie, mixed martial artist

        "Jason Miller's Red Dog is a gritty mystery that pulls the hat-trick of being as funny as it is intense. I read it in one sitting and would happily slip back into Slim and his daughter Anci's world tomorrow." — Steve Huff, author of Don't Go to Jail!: Saul Goodman's Guide to Keeping the Cuffs Off

        "If you've ever wondered what happens to a Goonie when they're old enough to buy alcohol, well, look no further than Slim." — Keith Buckley, author of Scale

        "Red Dog reads like driving a pickup with a lift kit at 80 mph down back roads, while listening to Mitch Hedberg and Steve Earle. Miller's sentences explode from the page like they were dynamited out of bedrock; his dialogue and plot crackle with the energy of a Midwestern thunderstorm." — Jeff Zentner, author of The Serpent King

        "A seamlessly plotted mystery with a likable hero in a gritty world populated by meth heads, environmental activists, and ordinary folks just trying to make a go of it. Tim Cockey and Robert Crais fans who crave laugh-out-loud dialog will add this title to their to-read lists." — Library Journal

        "Red Dog is violent country noir at its funniest—as if Tim Dorsey wandered out of Florida into Donald Ray Pollock's white trash Knockemstiff, Ohio" — Shelf Awareness

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        June 13, 2016
        In Miller’s funny follow-up to 2015’s Down Don’t Bother Me, two suspicious characters, Sheldon Cleaves and his grown son, A. Evan, ask Slim, of Redneck Investigations, to find Shelby Ann Cleaves, who turns out to be a pit bull puppy. Cleaves knows that Dennis Reach, who runs a roadhouse in Little Egypt, Ill., took the dog and offers Slim $65 to retrieve her. At the urging of Anci, Slim’s 13-year-old detective fiction–loving daughter, he accepts. Slim succeeds in retrieving Shelby Ann from Reach. But when someone shoots Reach dead with a Colt rifle and Sheriff R.L. Lindley suspect Slim, Slim starts looking for answers. Aided by the spunky Anci, Slim pursues a trail that leads him to Reach’s well-armed ex-wife, Carol Ray Reach; a white supremacist group; J.T. Black, a meth partner of Reach; and a dogfighting ring. Slim cracks wise, gives and takes beatings and insults, and gets just enough help to survive in this tale sure to please fans of light regional mysteries. Agent: Anthony Mattero, Foundry Literary + Media.

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        Slim, along with his precocious daughter Anci, lives in southern Illinois's coal country, a gothic region known as Little Egypt. Now a private detective, Slim started out in the mines that have now played out, leaving the area mired in poverty and depression. Slim is hired to find a stolen red pit bull puppy, but as he tracks down the pooch, he gets entangled in a spider's web of illegal dog fighting, murder, and white supremacists. And that's before the FBI gets involved. Slim and his bad-to-the-bone partner Jeep Mabry end up being hunted by the good and bad guys alike. VERDICT This second series outing (after Down Don't Bother Me) is a seamlessly plotted mystery with a likable hero in a gritty world populated by meth heads, environmental activists, militias, and ordinary folks just trying to make a go of it. Tim Cockey admirers and Robert Crais fans who crave laugh-out-loud dialog will add this title to their to-read lists.

        Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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        Everything happened because the air conditioner went out, and summer in the southern Illinois coal country can be murder. Slim, the one-named former mine worker and amateur detective, would be happy joining his 14-year-old daughter, Anci, in studying and dissing Sherlock Holmes: He spends half his time showing off. They smell a rat when two unappetizingly eccentric fellows offer a lot of money to find a lost red dog, but it's too damned hot to be picky. The quest leads Slim into a world of arson and murder, robot-like white supremacists, and harrowing underground dogfights. Readers may find the narrative overpopulated and overcomplicated as it wends its way to a savage finale. But there is great pleasure in Miller's way with wordsdampness sat on the skin like a corpse's tongue. And hats off to a devilishly clever plot based on those odd marks on the dog's neck. Anci takes credit for the Holmesian ratiocination that helps solve the puzzle, while the last bloody pages display Slim's Holmesian lack of interest in the law. A nice mix of hard-boiled action and Holmes homage.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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