Ridley Pearson: Crime Novels for Adults

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"Ridley Pearson has outdone himself with Killer Weekend."
—James Patterson

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New York Times bestseller, Ridley Pearson, returns with a completely new setting—the magnificent natural beauty of Sun Valley, Idaho—and a heart-stopping story in which a local sheriff struggles to protect a controversial politician from the elegant plan of a hired assassin.

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Eight years ago, in Sun Valley—snowcapped playground for the wealthy and ambitious—all that stood between U.S. Attorney General Elizabeth Shaler and a knife-wielding killer was local patrolman Walt Fleming. Now Liz Shaler returns to Sun Valley, as the crown jewel and keynote speaker of billionaire Patrick Cutter's world-famous media and communications conference, a convergence of the richest, most powerful business tycoons. The controversial attorney general is expected to announce her candidacy for president. It's a media coup for Cutter—but a security nightmare for Walt Fleming, now the county sheriff.

As the Cutter conference gets under way, authorities learn of a confirmed threat on Shaler's life, and various competing interests—the Secret Service, the FBI, Cutter's own security forces—begin jockeying for jurisdiction. Amid the conference's opulent extravagances, Walt is confronted with a potential murder, his nephew's arrest, and the haunting of his family's past. The clock ticks down to Shaler's address as we track the chilling precision of her assassin's preparations.

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Kirkus picked Killer Weekend as a "Hot Release for 2007"!!

Killer Weekend interview by Dave Barry:

"This is the first in a new series for Pearson, whose cleverly interwoven plots and crisp, economical prose have graced more than a dozen thrillers, most notably the Lou Boldt-Daphne Matthews series. Pearson is the first American recipient of the Raymond Chandler/Fulbright Fellowship in detective fiction at Oxford University. The late, great creator of Philip Marlowe would be proud—both of the selection itself and of the recipient's latest work."
   —Booklist (starred review)

"A brilliant and fascinating adult thriller...small-town mentality collides with Day of the Jackal in this amazing book...it is nice to see Pearson back in the thriller fold, where few come close to his prowess."
   —Library Journal (starred review)

"[a] quintessential beach book...We can only hope that this is the start of a new cycle for Pearson. In Fleming, he seems to have found an intricately human, brilliant character because, unlike so many other characters in the genre, he appears fallible. Perhaps that is why this is Pearson's best book in years."
   —BookSpoke.com (read the full review here)

"Ridley Pearson has outdone himself with Killer Weekend."
   —James Patterson

"Ridley Pearson writes some of the tightest thriller fiction around. In the deftness of his conceptions, the care with details, and the quality of writing, he's fully worthy of comparison to Michael Connelly."
   —Scott Turow

"If we had a Thriller Hall of Fame, Ridley Pearson would be a first-ballot certainty, both for his technical virtuosity and his intensely human stories. Does Killer Weekend maintain his standards? No, it sets new ones. Don't miss it."
   —Lee Child

"Just finished Killer Weekend and I loved it! Stumbled onto your book as I browsed looking for what looked like a "good book." I got my wish with Killer Weekend... Keep writing and I'll keep reading."
   —Dr. Joy Scallan