THE LENGTH OF DAYS The South Carolina coast. The town of Magnolia Beach. The long shadow of the 2008 economic crisis. A house fire. Twelve dead sex workers. Two more on the run. A comfortably corrupt cop… a young and idealistic investigative reporter… a retired iron and steel worker from the Midwest… a Mexican-American orderly at an assisted living center… a black sheep exile from an Old South family… a Vietnamese businessman. Six people who find themselves pulled into the orbit of the dead girls and into the crosshairs of the pure evil that killed them. “THE LENGTH OF DAYS is a multi-character, multi-plotted crime novel that grabs you early and never lets go. Kostoff is the total package. Brilliant dialogue, brilliant narratives (the likes of which I wish I could pen) and melded together in the Kostoff style that often leaves me trying to imagine writing that good. Kostoff remains one of the very best around. He’s certainly one of my top 5 living authors. To my mind, there are very few that come close.”—Charlie Stella Lynn Kostoff was born in Moultrie, Georgia and raised in Northeastern Ohio. He attended Bowling Green State University for both his undergraduate and graduate degrees. Along the way to becoming a crime writer and English professor, he worked as a truck farmer, gardener, janitor, hospital orderly, and steel mill laborer. He has taught at Indiana State University and the University of Alabama and is retired from Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina where he was the Writer-in-Residence.