A Time Gone By

Fiction. From the Edgar-winning author of THE CORSICAN and BEULAH HILL comes A TIME GONE BY, the story of NYPD detective Jake Downing's investigation into the murder of one of the city's most prominent judges. After the execution of a man purported by Downing to be the killer, the now-chief detective Downing begins to have doubts about whether his investigation put the wrong man to death, leading to a renewed search for the truth. Evoking the classic detective novels of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett and the noir films of the postwar years, the Rocky Mountain News calls Heffernan's tale "beguiling ... His success in the reworking of a classic American art form is also obvious. Cain and Hammett would have approved."