Michael Januska 
Prospect Avenue 
Border City Blues

West meets East as bootleggers and cops tangle with opium smugglers and corrupt officials in a new kind of gang warfare.



Prospect Avenue is nothing more than a dirt road ending in bulrushes behind a roadhouse. It’s a popular rendezvous point along the Detroit River for bootleggers like Jack Mc Closkey. But there’s more than just rum-running going on these days; there’s a growing trade in opium and people, as Mc Closkey finds out when he rescues the survivor of a bad smuggling deal.



As if this wasn’t enough, Mc Closkey is also trying to get his dinner club back on its feet, while his girlfriend, the indomitable Vera Maude, has a wedding to plan … and it’s not her own. He’s trying to hold things together while police corruption and domestic strife threaten to pull it all apart. Then, a series of murders brings powerful groups into conflict and may drag Mc Closkey into the fray.

About the author

Michael Januska has worked with books his whole life, both as a bookseller and for several publishing companies. Stories from Januska’s Prohibition-era Border City Blues novels have won two consecutive Scene of the Crime short story prizes. He is also the author of Grey Cup Century. He lives in Toronto.