{"product_id":"cheating-side","title":"Cheating Side","description":"\u003ch1\u003eCheating Side\u003c\/h1\u003eJ Reuben Appelman\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Blank Slate Press\u003cbr\u003eMay 5 2026\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781943075980\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1943075980\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cp\u003e\"Appelman writes with soul and swagger. \u003ci\u003eThe Cheating Side\u003c\/i\u003e ignites from the very first page and burns everything in its path. A truly breathtaking read.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e―Alex Gansa, creator of Showtime's Homeland series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen Idaho private investigator Jimmy Chinden's murder investigation threatens a land deal worth millions, the politically protected Aryan mob comes gunning for his family―but the old money outlaws might be outgunned.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the cheating side of Boise in Garden City, where Idahoans hide their dirtiest secrets, empty-nesting private investigator Jimmy Chinden is tracking a stolen 1961 Impala when he follows a column of smoke into the sagebrush to discover the vehicle―on fire, and with a body in the trunk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe victim is a reviled swindler, who Jimmy suspects murdered his mother after bilking her out of the no-tell motel she owned. The body's discovery awakens generational demons and sets off a chain of dark events as Jimmy's theft case turns into a murder investigation, threatening to upend a land deal worth millions and putting Jimmy's family at risk as North Idaho white supremacists and their drug cartel associates come gunning for him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a cast of characters evoking Elmore Leonard's society of goons, and a connection to the landscape that is vivid, visceral, and reminiscent of James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux novels, Appelman's \u003ci\u003eThe Cheating Side\u003c\/i\u003e provides a genre-pushing, socially relevant reinvigoration of the American crime novel protagonist, with a challenge to pervasive masculinity tropes and a biting, no-holds-barred attack on the bigotries of the American West.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67391817121837,"sku":"WHS-26339db5064e482d8bfda90f5cd85516","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_4bbe25a7-b52f-449d-a2f1-8086c862050e.jpg?v=1787357700","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/cheating-side","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}