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Chop Shop (novel)

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Chop Shop
AuthorTim Downs
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller Novel
PublisherHoward Books
Publication date
2004
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages352 pp
ISBN978-1-58229-401-8
OCLC55847356
813/.6 22
LC ClassPS3604.O954 C47 2004
Preceded byShoofly Pie 
Followed byFirst the Dead 

Chop Shop is a crime novel by the American writer and speaker Tim Downs.[1] It was published in 2004 by Howard Books and was preceded by Shoofly Pie.

Plot

This thriller features Nick “Bug Man” Polchak, a forensic entomologist who deduces clues to murders based on evidence left by insects on the victims. Dr. Riley McKay of the Allegheny County coroner's office is suspicious when analyzing several corpses. She asks Polchak for help, who discovers that a Pittsburgh-based black market in transplant organs seems to be fronted by PharmaGen, a genetics company with interests other than DNA.[2]

Origin

Chop Shop is the second in a series of Christian suspense novels featuring “Bug Man” Polchak.

References

  1. ^ "Tim Downs, Contemporary Authors Online, Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2008". {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  2. ^ "Chop Shop, Publishers Weekly, 2004". {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)