Prospect Avenue

Border City Blues

by Michael Januska

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Pub Date Nov 20 2018 | Archive Date Sep 30 2018

Dundurn | Dundurn Press

Historical Fiction | Mystery & Thrillers

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Description

West meets East as bootleggers and cops tangle with opium smugglers and corrupt officials in a new kind of gang warfare.

Prospect Avenue is nothing more than a dirt road ending in bulrushes behind a roadhouse. It’s a popular rendezvous point along the Detroit River for bootleggers like Jack McCloskey. But there’s more than just rum-running going on these days; there’s a growing trade in opium and people, as McCloskey finds out when he rescues the survivor of a bad smuggling deal.

As if this wasn’t enough, McCloskey is also trying to get his dinner club back on its feet, while his girlfriend, the indomitable Vera Maude, has a wedding to plan … and it’s not her own. He’s trying to hold things together while police corruption and domestic strife threaten to pull it all apart. Then, a series of murders brings powerful groups into conflict and may drag McCloskey into the fray.

A Note From the Publisher

- Third book in the Border City Blues series, which is often compared to the HBO series Boardwalk Empire
- Meticulously researched, with strict attention to historical detail
- Media-friendly author with experience in television, radio, and print interviews, as well as bookselling experience
- The series has been praised for its strong female characters who reach beyond formula-driven, male-dominated crime novels

- Third book in the Border City Blues series, which is often compared to the HBO series Boardwalk Empire
- Meticulously researched, with strict attention to historical detail
- Media-friendly...

Advance Praise

“This is a writer to watch”

—Margaret Cannon, Globe and Mail

“This is a writer to watch”

—Margaret Cannon, Globe and Mail

Marketing Plan

ADVERTISING
Consumer, trade, and wholesaler advertising campaign

MARKETING MATERIALS
Bookmarks

EVENTS
Festival pitches
Event promotion: posters, evites
Trade shows, school and library conferences
Launch event, Toronto

DIGITAL MARKETING
Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Dundurn.com campaigns
Cover and sample chapter reveal
Guest Post on Dundurn Blog
Digital Reader Copies available: NetGalley, Edelweiss
Consumer, library, bookseller, and author newsletters

SPECIAL OUTREACH
Key Influencer mailing
Niche marketing to associations and interest groups
Bookseller mailing, enhanced packaging

PUBLICITY
Targeted media and blogger review mailings
Advance Reading Copies available, enhanced quantity

MERCHANDISING
EPUB series price promotion and bundle