



The local authorities seem ready to accept the case at face value as a racial hate crime. The next day, the discovery of his body with a vicious racist epithet carved into his chest leads to the quick arrest of two loathsome white supremacists. World renowned Dartmouth professor Wilson Bledsoe is returning from a party celebrating his latest honor when he encounters a broken down pickup on the secluded country road to his home. The Blackbird Papers marks the debut of Ian Smith, a major new talent in crime fiction, and of Sterling Bledsoe, his smart and occasionally combative sleuth. The setup for a shocking murder designed to cover up an even more sinister crime… A Good Samaritan passerby a Nobel Prize winning professor…
