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A rainy night . . . A stranded motorist . . . AN EXCELLENT Samaritan passerby … a Nobel Prize–winning professor . . . The setup for a shocking murder made to cover up an even more sinister crime . . .
The Blackbird Papers marks the debut of Ian Smith, a significant new talent in crime fiction, and of Sterling Bledsoe, his smart and occasionally combative sleuth.
World-renowned Dartmouth professor Wilson Bledsoe is returning from a party celebrating his latest honor when he encounters a broken-down pickup on the secluded country road to his home. The next day, the discovery of his body with a vicious racist epithet carved into his chest contributes to the quick arrest of two loathsome white supremacists. The local authorities seem prepared to accept the truth at face value as a racial hate crime. However the murdered professor’s brother, FBI agent Sterling Bledsoe, has inserted himself in to the investigation and isn’t prepared to buy into this pat solution. A shop around his brother’s lab and brief interviews along with his students and colleagues pique Sterling’s fascination with Wilson’s pet project: a practically completed paper on the mysterious deaths of a huge selection of local blackbirds.
Fast-paced and cleverly constructed, The Blackbird Papers introduces a significant new talent in mystery and crime fiction.
