Rushmore Mc Kenzie is a former cop, current millionaire, and an occasional unlicensed P.
who does favors for friends.
Yet he has reservations when the daughter of his girlfriend Nina Truhler asks him to help her father, Nina's ex-husband Jason Truhler, a man in serious trouble.
En route to a Canadian blues festival on Highway 61, he met a girl, blacked out, and awoke hours later in a strange motel room with the girl's murdered body on the floor.
Slipping away unnoticed and heading home, he thought he got away with it--until he started getting texts with photos of the body and demands for blackmail money he couldn't afford to pay.
Mc Kenzie soon discovers that Truhler was set up in a modified honey trap.
But Truhler's version of events wasn't exactly the truth, either.
And Mc Kenzie soon finds himself trapped in the middle of a very serious game involving teenage prostitution with some of the most powerful men in the state on one side and some of the deadliest on the other.
Praise for HIGHWAY 61: Rushmore Mc Kenzie agrees to help Jason Truhler, the ex-husband of his lover, Nina Truhler, in Housewright's solid eighth novel featuring the Twin Cities ex-cop who occasionally does 'favors' for friends.
Jason appears to be the victim of a variation on the badger game when he attended the Thunder Bay Blues Festival in Ontario.
He woke the next morning in a cheap hotel room, naked, with a dead girl on the floor, lots of blood, and no memory--now he's being blackmailed for murder.
Trying to unravel the scam leads Mc Kenzie into a morass involving an Internet sex ring, drug dealers, a pair of thugs called Big Joe and Little Joe Stippel, arsonists called Backdraft and Bug, and some of the Twin Cities' most powerful people.
The tenacious Mc Kenzie bounces between cops, bad guys, and movers and shakers with a tenuous hold on legalities but a good grasp on ethics.
--Publisher's Weekly In his latest favor (see The Taking of Libbie, SD), Rushmore Mc Kenzie is at his best as he muses o.
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Down & Out Books Highway 61, paperback/david housewright
