Accustomed to the Dark

By Walter Satterthwait

After an attack on his lover, Croft scours New Mexico for vengeance.

Ever since a bullet smashed her spine, detective Joshua Croft has tried to entice Rita Mondragón away from her house. For years the response from his boss and unrequited love has been the same: 'I'll go into town when I can walk there.' When she is finally strong enough to walk, their relationship blossoms into love. Rita and Croft are basking on the patio outside her mountain home when a helicopter swoops overhead. A single rifle shot erupts, and Rita is struck down again.

After hours in the operating room, the surgeons are able to remove the bullet from Rita's brain, leaving her comatose but stable. As she fights to wake up, Croft starts on the trail for the gunman. Avenging Rita will require him to look back into their past, to the beginnings of their relationship, and the birth of a love that is too young to die.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Release date: Jun 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781784088439

Walter Satterthwait

Walter Satterthwait (b. 1946) is an author of mysteries and historical fiction. A fan of mystery novels from a young age, he spent high school immersed in the works of Dashiell Hammett and Mickey Spillane. While working as a bartender in New York in the late 1970s, he wrote his first book: an adventure novel, Cocaine Blues (1979), about a drug dealer on the run from a pair of killers.

Reviews for Accustomed to the Dark

[gmac_11 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

When Joshua Croft's partner and lover, Rita Mondragon, is nearly killed by a psychopath who had tried to kill her years before, Joshua vows to find the brutal killer and embarks on a vengeful quest that takes him all across the country.