Bill Pronzini: Mourners (USA 2007)

From the Publisher:
EVERYONE IS MOURNING SOMETHING
Nameless has seen enough death in his years; spending his time watching someone drive to several funerals a day, funerals for people Nameless doesn't even know, is more than he can take.

Then the bits and pieces begin to fall into place: The funerals James Troxell is attending are all for women who died violently. Is he the killer? One woman thinks so -- she insists Troxell is the one who murdered her sister.

But there are too many deaths, too many roads leading nowhere, too many crimes and secrets and fears. This might be the one case that breaks Nameless -- but the mourning has to stop, so Nameless will have to see it through...

Bill Pronzini: Mourners. A Nameless Detective Novel. Forge, ISBN: 0765349264 (May, 2007), 288 p., $6.99.

Bill Pronzini: Mourners (USA 2006)

From the Publisher:
"Nameless" had seen enough death in his years; spending his time watching someone drive to several funerals a day, funerals for people he didn’t know, was more than he could take. And he had a non-professional problem of his own: his relationship with his wife, Kerry, had hit a wall and nothing he did got him over it and to the other side. There was one possibility, one thing he’d done (or not done), but knowing that didn’t seem to help…

Also not helping was the mood in the office. Tamara had something eating at her and Jake… well, Jake needed a case so he could stop thinking about what was happening with his son. It was a mournful time for everyone.

Then the bits and pieces began to fall into place: The funerals James Troxell was attending were all for women who had died violently. Was he responsible? One woman thought so, thought Troxell had killed her sister, and her insistence was becoming a problem.

Too many deaths, too many roads leading nowhere, too many crimes and secrets and fears were coming together as heavy as the fog rolling over the Bay. Too many answers were needed before there’d be sunshine again for anyone and the mourning could stop.

Bill Pronzini: Mourners. A Nameless Detective Novel. Forge, ISBN: 0765309327 (March, 2006), 285 p., $24.95.