Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover is a 2008 Gumshoe Award nominee for Best First Novel.

After graduating from Columbia College Chicago and the American Security Training Institute, Sean Chercover worked as a private investigator in Chicago and New Orleans. He has since written for film, television and print. He’s also worked as a film and video editor, scuba diver, nightclub magician, truck driver, waiter, car-jockey, encyclopedia salesman, and in other, less glamorous positions. These days, he splits his time between Chicago and Toronto and generally stays out of trouble. Big City, Bad Blood is his first novel.

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"The story is tight, the voice self-assured, and the characters as hardboiled as they come. Chercover really delivers the goods here, in as solid a debut as I've seen in a long, long time."

Steve Hamilton, Edgar-Winning Author of A Stolen Season

"It's amazing how real this book feels. Sean Chercover's P.I. experience serves him well as a writer. He pulls no punches, exposing Chicago and how things really work here. I love this book!"

Legendary Chicago P.I. Ernie Rizzo