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Several of Robert Campbell's Jimmy Flannery series titles have been US Kindle Countdown deals in the last few months, and here's another one...

Sauce For The Goose is the ninth in the series and it's at $0.99 for about 6 1/2 more days.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Sauce-Goose-J...dp/B01M8MKMP6/

Spoiler:

*** EDGAR and ANTHONY AWARD WINNING AUTHOR of The Junkyard Dog ***

Jimmy Flannery, the new Democratic committeeman, never realized the extent of the political corruption in the city, but he quickly learns that no matter who does the dirty work, the Mafia, or "paid professionals," people who get in the way end up dead.

Now Robert Campbell's Edgar Award-winning sleuth, a Chicago sewer inspector and Democratic committeeman for the Twenty-seventh ward returns at the top of his game...

Thursday night's political science class is pulling in an unlikely crowd: the teacher's a slick lawyer who wears $400 shoes, and the worst student is a mob henchman who nods off as soon as the lecture begins. Not that Jimmy Flannery is one to judge. What's this idealistic sewer inspector, doing at night school anyway?

He's getting an education in the finer points of the Chicago machine, where politics, patronage, and organized crime shake hands. Jimmy--a decent guy in a dishonest world--is familiar with his town's mangled grammar, its dirty contract deals, and the strange disappearances of those who become a liability. But night school is fast becoming a crash course in crime. First one classmate--the mob figure--dies in a suspicious mugging, then the teacher, attorney Frank Vollmer, drops out of sight after promising Jimmy he'll take on a pro bono case.

Using his vast network of local connections both within and way outside the law, Jimmy weaves together a complicated picture that includes cheating spouses, suicide, and two disputed legacies. One involves a very well-off canine. The other, far more sinister, will determine who controls the city of Chicago.

I should probably also note that the first in the series, The Junkyard Dog, which won both an Edgar and an Anthony in 1987 (per SYKM), is a long term freebie, in case you want to give the series a try.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Junkyard-Jimm...dp/B0153KUVUK/

Spoiler:

***Edgar Award Winner*** - The Junkyard Dog -- Chicago is Jimmy Flannery's kind of town. A tough Irishman with street smarts, he's part of a political machine that runs on favors and friendships. Flannery's particular piece of the patronage is the 27th Ward, and anything that happens there is his business. Even murder.

So when an antiabortion demonstration ends with a bomb blast that kills a pretty young girl and an old woman, Flannery takes it personally. But someone's stonewalling the investigation, and Flannery's starting to wonder if the bombing was political, or as a cover-up for murder. Something smells rotten -- from the Gold Coast to the South Side. And when the killer goes after Flannery's lady love, Flannery doesn't just get mad -- he gets as mean as a junkyard dog -- on the scent of the dirty politics mixed with passion and revenge, a very deadly combination . . .