Winner of the Best First Crime Novelat the 2019 Arthur Ellis Awards!Nominated for aLefty for Best Debut Mystery Novel!”Hammerhead” JedOunstead thought he’d traded the pro-wrestling world for the slightly lessdangerous one of a bar bouncer and errand boy for his father’s detectiveagency, but the squared circle wasn’t quite done with him yet. When his formertag-team partner draws upon their old friendship for help in finding hiskidnapped pet snake, Jed finds himself dragged back into the fold of sleazypromoters, gimmicky performers, and violence inside and outside the ring. Asthe venom of Vancouver’s criminal underworld begins to seep into Jed’s life, asteel chair to the back of the head is the least of his problems.CobraClutch is a fast-paced, hard-hitting debut novel by A.J. Devlin thatfeatures an unstoppable combo: a signature move of raucous humour with a superfinisher of gritty realism.
