To hit Brock where it hurts the most, a vengeful stranger targets the people he loves It starts with the dead cat. Ex-private investigator Brock Callahan finds the Siamese by his mailbox, its throat cut, and assumes it is a message from some crook he put away long ago. Soon a letter arrives—"The cat was first. Who is second?"—and Brock knows the threat is no joke. He hires his protégé, the ambitious young detective Corey Raleigh, to help him guard his wife and housekeeper, but Corey has troubles of his own. The kid detective is about to get an inside look at the workings of criminal justice. The cops find Corey not far from Brock's house—half-conscious with a gun in his hand and a dead man at his feet. It's an obvious frame-up, but to clear Corey's name Brock will have to find the real killer, and lock him away before his wife meets the same fate as the unfortunate Siamese. Cat and Mouse is the 13th book in the Brock Callahan Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

ウィリアム・キャンベル・ゴールトが描くのは、誇り高き探偵の矜持と家族への深い情愛です。本作は愛猫の死という戦慄の警告から始まり、引退したブロック・キャラハンの平穏を漆黒の復讐劇へと変貌させます。単なるハードボイルドの枠を超え、守るべき者のために己を投じる男の魂が、鋭利な文体を通して熱く胸に迫ります。 物語の核は、罠に嵌められた弟子を救うべく立ち上がる師弟の絆と、過去の因縁がもたらす極限の心理戦にあります。司法の闇を背景に、犯人の冷酷なゲームを逆手に取る知略の攻防はまさに圧巻。読み終えた瞬間、あなたは真の正義の重みに震え、この骨太な人間ドラマの虜になるはずです。