John Pellam · Book 2
Bloody River Blues
- Published
- 1 January 1993
- Pages
- 363
- ISBN-13
- 9780753167076
- Type
- novel
About this book
Bloody River Blues followed a year later at 363 pages, sending Hollywood location scout John Pellam's job into a new town and a fresh set of small-town suspects. Jeffery Deaver originally published both this and Shallow Graves under the pseudonym William Jefferies before reissuing the series under his own name, writing it in a traditional amateur-detective register closer to his early career than the forensic procedurals that would later make him a bestseller.
Its place in John Pellam
Bloody River Blues is book 2 in the John Pellam series. It follows Shallow Graves. It is followed by Hell's Kitchen. See the full John Pellam reading order.
John Pellam is a Hollywood location scout — a former stuntman turned scenery-scouting freelancer for film productions — who keeps stumbling into local murders and small-town conspiracies wherever his job sends him. Jeffery Deaver wrote the first two Pellam novels early in his career, before the Lincoln Rhyme series made him a bestseller, under conditions closer to a traditional amateur-detective mystery than the forensic puzzle-boxes he'd later become known for: a likable outsider protagonist whose professional…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780753167076