Flashback (35 page)

“Tight prose and a quicksilver plot complete the package. Siler knows how to write an absorbing page-turner.
Flashback
is every bit as much fun as her last [
Shot
].”

—Library Journal

“A welcome addition to the Grit-Lit boys' club. Siler can slice and dice and talk tough with the best of them … The action is swift, the setting is exotic, and Siler's riffs on memory are memorable.”

—The Baltimore Sun

“Relentless pace and some clever plot twists keep you guessing in this
Bourne Identity
update.”

—Mystery Lovers Bookshop News

   

Shot

“
Shot
is everything a thriller should be: spare enough to keep the tension constant, but brimming with fully realized characters who are heroic, in part, because of their flaws; smart enough, with its biochemical warfare– centered plot, to keep the reader guessing, but never didactic … Damn good fun.”

—Entertainment Weekly

“
Shot
, the third of Jenny Siler's riveting suspense novels, showcases her strong female characters and superbly paced plotting … The pieces come together fast and furious in this sharply written and timely novel evocative of the best of the ‘noir' genre.”

—The Baltimore Sun

“Quirky characters, a quicksilver plot, and chase scenes aplenty … In Siler's dirty but redeemable universe, everyone ends up on higher ground.”

—Publishers Weekly

“A sizzling nail-biter, ratcheting up the suspense with each page, keeping the reader guessing during the entire tension-filled trip.”

—Mary-Ann Tirone Smith, author of
Love Her Madly

“Sit back and enjoy the intrigue.
Shot
is riveting storytelling.”

—Lynn Hightower, author of
High Water

“Siler hits her marks with quick, fast takes packed with telling clues and sharp details.”

—Kirkus Reviews

“Siler's latest crime novel features not one but two of the strong female characters that have become her trademark … The path they take from drawn weapons to uneasy alliance against secretive and powerful foes makes this a substantial and suspenseful thriller.”

—Booklist

Iced

“Poetry with attitude.”

—The New York Times Book Review

“Jenny Siler writes like a hard-boiled angel, prose as dazzling as cut stones, characters as polished and complex as diamond facets, and a plot as compelling as unbridled greed.”

—James Crumley, author of
Bordersnakes

“The first thing you notice about Jenny Siler's atmospheric novel
Iced
is the elegance of the prose laid against the rough-and-tumble exterior of her protagonist. The result is a novel that works on two levels, that of a terrific thriller layered with imagery and passages of soulful, beautiful writing. Siler's first book,
Easy Money
, was a huge critical success and put the author on the literary map.
Iced
will keep her there. Here is a major talent.”

—The Denver Post

“Gardner's unshakable moral foundation gives her depth and likability as she untangles a knot of murder and mayhem with roots in a plane crash decades ago. It's a bleak, intricate story. And Meg Gardner's a keeper.”

—The Baltimore Sun

“One of the new talents in tough-gal crime fiction … She handles the hard-boiled writing style with a natural grace, never sounding forced or stagy … It effectively reveals Gardner as a complex soul, faithless and dour, as rugged as the Montana wilderness.”

—Publishers Weekly

Easy Money

A
New York Times
Notable Book

“Once in a blue moon, a new writer speaks up in a voice that gets your attention like a rifle shot. Jenny Siler … has that kind of voice … clean, direct and a little dangerous … An intensely vivid piece of writing.”

—Marilyn Stasio,
The New York Times Book Review

“In her first novel, 27-year-old author Jenny Siler has shown tough-guy thriller writers how a woman does it. And she packs some punch … A terrific thriller.”

—The Wall Street Journal

“A triumphant debut … Siler's persuasive take on the underground world of deviant behavior, and her ability to channel that world through an introspective female protagonist, mesmerizes as it thrills.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Breezy, cool violent action debut featuring a two-fisted, pistol-packing tough gal courier chased by bad guys across a shattered, washed-up-and-left-for-dead American heartland … A bumpy, bloody road trip into a dark past and darker present from a writer who may have what it takes to be a genre star.”

—Kirkus Reviews

Published by arrangement with Henry Holt and Company.

FLASHBACK

Copyright © 2004 by Jenny Siler.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information address Henry Holt and Company.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2003055254

ISBN: 0-312-93316-9

EAN: 9780312-93316-6

Henry Holt hardcover edition published 2004

St. Martin's Paperbacks edition / August 2005

St. Martin's Paperbacks are published by St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.

eISBN 9781466853003

First eBook edition: August 2013