Black mountain - Laird Barron

Ex-mob enforcer Isaiah Coledrige has hung out a shingle as a private eye in New York's Hudson Valley, and in his newest case, a seemingly simple murder investigation leads him to the most terrifying enemy he has ever faced When a small-time criminal named Harold Lee turns up in the Ashokan reservoir--sans a heartbeat, head, or hands--the local mafia capo hires Isaiah Coleridge to look into the matter.

The mob likes crime, but only the crime it controls .

and as it turns out, Lee is the second independent contractor to meet a bad end on the business side of a serrated knife.

One such death can be overlooked.

Two makes a man wonder.

A guy in Harold Lee's business would make his fair share of enemies, and it seems a likely case of pure revenge.

But as Coledrige turns over more stones, he finds himself dragged into something deeper and more insidious than he could have imagined, in a labyrinthine case spanning decades.

At the center are an heiress moonlighting as a cabaret dancer, a powerful corporation with high-placed connections, and a serial killer who may have been honing his skills since the Vietnam War.

A twisty, action-packed follow-up to the acclaimed Blood Standard , Black Mountain cements Laird Barron as an inventive and remarkable voice in crime fiction.