Bone Factory - Tapa dura

Homicide cops Eliza Ochoa and Ike Horner are on the scene of a body dump in a rundown midwestern city, crouching over the freezing corpse of another dead working girl. She's been cut up in all the most delicate places, and so it's perhaps understandable that Ike and Eliza at first miss the most telling detail of this routine Booth City morning: she isn't actually female. As the two detectives go over the last days of a young prostitute's life, pushed more by dogged determination than any extraordinary sleuthing abilities, the facts lead them deep into a quickly unravelling conspiracy that stretches from the darkest holes in Booth to the fringes of its most influential families. As the investigation hurtles toward its violent and startling conclusion, Ike and Eliza remain intent on proving, perhaps only to themselves, that justice is indeed possible in Booth City.

Praise for Skin River:
"Hard-nosed, soft-hearted Buddy is irresistible, and Sidor supports him with bang-bang storytelling and a sharply drawn cast. Take note, and you may see a star in the making."--Kirkus Reviews

"You can't get creepier than this. Exquisitely plotted."--Booklist

"With an eye for gritty detail and a predilection for metaphor, Sidor paints a morbid picture of deviance and death in the small Wisconsin town of Gunnar in his fast-paced crime debut. The salty prose and clever narration will keep readers hooked."--Publishers Weekly

"Skin River is an incredible debut--unforgettable, spellbinding, and darkly suspenseful. Steven Sidor must have sold his soul to the devil to write this well."--Steve Hamilton, author of Ice Run

"A stinger of a first novel--dark, harrowing, and unpredictable as a run of dangerous river. Steven Sidor plunges you into chilling waters on page one and barely lets you up for air."--Gregg Hurwitz, author of The Kill Clause

"Skin River is a sharp, breathless upcountry thriller. Steven Sidor keeps the pacing piano-wire taut and selects his words with a vivisectionist's diabolical care."--Stewart O'Nan, author of The Night Country