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KILL FEE

Owen Laukkanen

The new Stevens and Windermere novel from the author of the dazzlingly acclaimed The Professionals and Criminal Enterprise!
Witnessing the assassination of one of Minnesota's wealthiest men, state investigator Kirk Stevens and FBI special agent Carla Windermere follow a series of discouraging false leads before discovering a high-tech murder-for-hire social media website.
The billionaire picked a heck of a day to die.

One beautiful sunny Saturday in Minneapolis, he got out of his car and was promptly shot by a sniper. Across the street, two people were sitting on a bench: Minnesota state investigator Kirk Stevens and his occasional colleague, FBI special agent Carla Windermere. They not only saw it all; they also saw the shooter, an absolutely normal-looking guy. Except for his eyes. There was something very wrong in his eyes.

And it was only the beginning. This one killing will lead the two of them across many states, down many blind alleys, and finally to a very flourishing twenty-first century venture: a high-tech, murder-for-hire website. But as to who’s behind it, and what else he’s been up to… that’s where things get complicated.

A graduate of the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing program, Laukkanen spent three years in the world of professional poker reporting before turning to fiction. He currently lives in Vancouver, where he’s hard at work on the fourth installment in the Stevens and Windermere series.
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Published 2014-03-01 by Putnam

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Published 2014-03-01 by Putnam

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Kill Fee is further proof that Laukkanen is one of the best young thriller writers working today. His pace is relentless, his plots are satisfyingly intricate and his prose is cut-to-the-bone lean . . . Perhaps as importantly, his books boast social relevance. Like David Baldacci, a veteran of the thinking man’s thriller genre, Laukkanen understands the value of tying an exhilarating adventure back to the pressing concerns of the real world. Read more...

Just two books in [The Professionals and Criminal Enterprise] and Laukkanen is a master at elevating stakes and keeping those prize pages turning. Book No. 3 in the Stevens & Windermere series, Kill Fee, is even better.

Enthralling . . . Kill Fee works well as an in-depth police procedural and an insightful look at amorality and greed. Laukkanen employs the same strengths of brisk plotting and incisive character studies that he established in his first two novels. Read more...

Blistering pace and a stomach-turning homicide-for-hire scheme . . . Laukkanen keeps readers engaged with a serpentine plot that writhes through high-tech and low-life corruption.

Pulse-pounding…you won’t put this third Stevens and Windermere installment down unfinished.

Sales for the previous books: UK: Corvus/Atlantic Bulgarian: Obsidian Czech: Euromedia Dutch: Karakter Hungarian: Athenaeum Norwegian: Cappelen Damm Russian: Centrepolygraph Slovak: Ikar