Calico

By Lee Goldberg

Deal Ends: Wed 15th July

From the #1 New York Times bestselling authorBUCKLE UP FOR THE TWISTIEST THRILLER YOU WILL READ THIS YEAR.'A genre-bending, gripping read' — Harlan Coben'A mind-bending thriller unlike anything I have read before' — Linwood Barclay'Could be Lee Goldberg's best ever' — Lee Child'I guarantee you've never read a crime novel like it. The X Files meets Deadwood. Totally gripping' — Ian RankinA man walks into the path of an oncoming motor home in the Mojave Desert.He's dressed like an 1880s miner. His bones are over a hundred years old.Welcome to Barstow.Detective Beth McDade was an LAPD homicide cop until she wasn't. Now she's working the graveyard shift in a town nobody chooses, and she has a body in Yermo she can't explain. The security camera caught the dead man running into traffic seconds after a flash of lightning that wasn't really lightning, more like something tearing a hole in the sky.Days later, an LA food blogger vanishes off the same stretch of Interstate 15. The last footage of him alive shows him buying beef jerky at a gas station up the road.When his skeleton turns up — a hundred years in the ground — and the dental records match the man on camera, Beth realises something out there in the desert is moving people through time.And it's been doing it for a very long time.Praise for Calico'If you have time for only one mystery, one Western, and one SF this year, this will ding all three targets' — Kirkus Reviews'Goldberg's plots are always first-rate, but this one is especially suspenseful and surprising' — Booklist'A remarkably unconventional crime novel that is warm, thrilling, and fun to read' — Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine'A cleverly complex plot wreathed in Goldberg's brilliant humour makes this a rocket-paced story' — Historical Novels Review (Editors' Choice)'A double-barrelled blast, melding the tense, edge-of-your-seat contemporary police procedural with a gritty 1880s Wild West tale' — The Roundup