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Clean Hands a Gus Rourke Novel: Book One of the Calder County Novels
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Series: The Clean Series - A Gus Rourke the Calder County Novels, Book 2
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ISBN13: 9798950957215
Publisher: Corporate Solutions Group, Inc.
Published: Aug 5 2026
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Corporate Solutions Group, Inc.
Published: Aug 5 2026
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Two hundred people watched Eleanor Grant die. By morning, every one of them
had agreed on what they saw. And it is a lie. WINNER of Best Police Procedural Booky Award
in recognition of
CLEAN HANDS, A GUS ROURKE NOVEL Book One of the Calder County Novels
Judged by Marcus Thorne - Genre Execution score: 84 / 100
had agreed on what they saw. And it is a lie. WINNER of Best Police Procedural Booky Award
in recognition of
CLEAN HANDS, A GUS ROURKE NOVEL Book One of the Calder County Novels
Judged by Marcus Thorne - Genre Execution score: 84 / 100
Awarded July 29, 2026 - BOOKYAWARDS WINNER of the Literary Titan Gold Book Award
recognizes books that contain excellent writing and original content.
Awarded August 7, 2026 - LITERARY TITAN CLEAN HANDS
She is killed at her own charity gala, in the library at Greywood, and the county settles on the story before the body is cold: a burglary that went wrong. It is a tidy story. It is signed by two hundred witnesses who matter. And it is a lie. Detective Gus Rourke is forty-eight, former Army CID, red-green colorblind, and constitutionally unable to leave a loose thread alone. He does not have a suspect. What he has is a dead philanthropist whose foundation moved a great deal of money to places that do not appear to exist, a staged burglary performed by someone competent enough to make it look amateur, and a captain who would prefer the case closed by Friday. What Rourke pulls on runs a hundred years deep. Behind Eleanor Grant is a network with no name, no headquarters, and no letterhead, which has spent a century laundering the worst money and the worst people in the state through its most trusted charities. Its product is not money. Its product is a clean reputation. And it has never once had to answer to its own name. Rourke will not be able to arrest the man at the center of it. He is going to have to do something harder, and far more dangerous: put the whole thing in daylight, on the record, where anyone can read it. Meticulous, patient, and grounded in the real machinery of how the powerful get away with it, CLEAN HANDS introduces a detective who fights institutional crime with the only weapons that work against it - documents, daylight, and a refusal to stop reading. Book One of the Calder County Novels. Continues in Clean Money and Clean Kill.
recognizes books that contain excellent writing and original content.
Awarded August 7, 2026 - LITERARY TITAN CLEAN HANDS
She is killed at her own charity gala, in the library at Greywood, and the county settles on the story before the body is cold: a burglary that went wrong. It is a tidy story. It is signed by two hundred witnesses who matter. And it is a lie. Detective Gus Rourke is forty-eight, former Army CID, red-green colorblind, and constitutionally unable to leave a loose thread alone. He does not have a suspect. What he has is a dead philanthropist whose foundation moved a great deal of money to places that do not appear to exist, a staged burglary performed by someone competent enough to make it look amateur, and a captain who would prefer the case closed by Friday. What Rourke pulls on runs a hundred years deep. Behind Eleanor Grant is a network with no name, no headquarters, and no letterhead, which has spent a century laundering the worst money and the worst people in the state through its most trusted charities. Its product is not money. Its product is a clean reputation. And it has never once had to answer to its own name. Rourke will not be able to arrest the man at the center of it. He is going to have to do something harder, and far more dangerous: put the whole thing in daylight, on the record, where anyone can read it. Meticulous, patient, and grounded in the real machinery of how the powerful get away with it, CLEAN HANDS introduces a detective who fights institutional crime with the only weapons that work against it - documents, daylight, and a refusal to stop reading. Book One of the Calder County Novels. Continues in Clean Money and Clean Kill.
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