Batavia, New York Nov 5, 2025 (Issuewire.com) - High Stakes, Higher Bodies: John Corral’s Killing Them at the Casino Deals a Deadly Hand Crime & Culture Casinos promise glamour, risk, and the illusion of control. In John Corral’s taut new thriller, Killing Them at the Casino, that glittering façade cracks to reveal a darker house game—one where the stakes aren’t chips but lives. Part police procedural, part political thriller, and wholly compulsive, Corral sets his mystery inside California’s most successful tribal casino, where power, profit, and blood ties collide. Detective Joan Evans is the kind of lead crime readers root for—disciplined, gut-smart, and haunted by the cases that don’t add up. When she and her partner Ben Wilcox catch a thread tied to the Chenoa tribe’s casino, they’re pulled into an investigation already littered with bodies and buried under years of silence. Their guide? An insider who swears he has “all the dirt” on corruption—maybe even murder. But Corral keeps the question razor-sharp: can he be trusted, or is he dealing from a stacked deck? The pleasures here are classic crime–mystery–suspense: tight pacing, clean prose, and reveals that land like a turn of the card you didn’t see coming. Corral uses the casino’s labyrinth—VIP suites, surveillance rooms, back-of-house corridors—as a stage for escalating tension, while the tribal politics add a thorny, timely dimension about sovereignty, loyalty, and what justice really costs. The result is a procedural with heat and heart, where every clue feels earned and every ally might be a liability. Comparisons to Michael Connelly and Tana French will feel natural—sleek investigation, emotional stakes—but Killing Them at the Casino holds its own with a distinctive sense of place and a heroine whose moral compass never stops twitching. By the final showdown, you’ll be turning pages with the speed of a roulette wheel, desperate to see where the ball drops. Bottom line: Corral deals a winner—sharp, shadowy, and unputdownable.
Book Details Title: Killing Them at the Casino
Author: John Corral
Genre: Crime · Murder Mystery · Thriller & Suspense Availability:
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