She had the files. She had a plan. Now she's dead-and everyone's lying about why. Cricket Dawes had proof-names, dates, dossiers-pointing to something rotten inside a billion-dollar energy operation. The night she planned to go public, she turned up dead in a parking lot. The cops say it was a mugging. The press lost interest fast. Jim Winchester, the fast-talking head of a local activist group, thinks otherwise. He hires Rafferty to find out what really happened to Cricket-and, more importantly, to find the files she stole. But Rafferty doesn't like Winchester, doesn't trust his story-and the deeper he digs, the worse it smells. From dirty money to missing evidence, from shady suits to street-level threats, Rafferty's chasing a killer who's buried their tracks beneath layers of lies. But Cricket deserves justice. And Rafferty? He's not the kind of guy who lets a murder slide. Hardboiled, fast-paced, and packed with sharp dialogue, Poor Dead Cricket is the third novel in the Shamus Award-winning Rafferty P.I. series. Fans of Spenser, Reacher, and Elvis Cole-step into Rafferty's world today.