COLD DARK LIES is the sixth book in the Martin Preuss mystery series. When distraught Carrie Morrison hires private detective Martin Preuss to find out how her younger brother wound up beaten and strung-out on heroin in a sleazy suburban Detroit motel, Preuss initially thinks the story will be a familiar one: A clean-living young man takes a walk on the wild side and pays the consequences. But the deeper Preuss digs, the more he realizes that nothing is as it seems in this world of secrets and lies. The questions multiply: How is Carrie's brother involved with a missing prostitute? How is this case connected to a local rap mogul who moonlights as the area's main supplier of dope? Why is a stone-cold killer out for revenge with Preuss squarely in his cross-hairs? And-most upsetting of all-how should Preuss respond when a local crime boss threatens his beloved son Toby if Preuss does not do what the boss demands?Riveting, gritty, tautly written, COLD DARK LIES is the latest compulsively-readable mystery from Donald Levin.