Little Altar Boy

"...for those who prefer the darkest of hard-boiled fiction." ~Publisher's Weekly

"John Guzlowski’s powerful Little Altar Boy centers on the fatal stabbing of a Chicago nun. Set in 1967, Mr. Guzlowski’s latest takes place a decade after events in his equally memorable Suitcase Charlie, which also featured Windy City detective Hank Purcell and his partner Marvin Bondarowicz." ~Wall Street Journal

"Dark, gripping, graphic, gritty... Little Altar Boy offers no easy answers. It's a realistic, hard-boiled, noir tale that deftly captures the diverse attitudes and emotions of the times." ~Lansing State Journal

"Little Altar Boy once again features Hank Purcell and Marvin Bondarowicz, whom we met in Suitcase Charlie and are happy to see again...  In the classic procedural that follows, the cops choke down their own cynicism to investigate a crime that officially doesn’t exist." ~New York Times

"A vivid portrait of an earlier time..." ~Kirkus

Listed as Crime Fiction Lover's Top 5 Books of the Year!

“Little Altar Boy is a book that never takes the easy way out, and Guzlowski doesn’t arrange events for a tidy, Hollywood-style ending. Instead, what he writes is true to his characters in a way that will draw you in, tight.”

~Crime Fiction Lover