Washed up private detective Eliot Conte is still reeling from the murders of his two adult children when Utica police chief - and childhood best friend - Antonio Robinson involves him in a murderous plot that may lead straight to a New York state politico and kingmaker, Silvio Conte-Eliot's father. Readers will be hooked by this fast-paced, hard-boiled new crime series. The Accidental Pallbearer is Lentricchia's eighth work of fiction and the first in a projected series of crime novels set in Utica, a city struggling to cope.
