{"product_id":"the-cheating-side","title":"The Cheating Side","description":"\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\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1943075980\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781943075980\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Appelman, J. Reuben\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Blank Slate Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Blank Slate Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (May 2026)","offer_id":46100261994693,"sku":"9781943075980","price":19.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781943075980.jpg?v=1776648594","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/the-cheating-side","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}