''Mean Business on North Ganson Street'' is a 2014 crime thriller novel written by

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and published by Thomas Dunne Books. The plot concerns a detective named Jules Bettinger who relocates to Victory, Missouri, a collapsed

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city, where he and his new partner investigate a double homicide in which two policemen were killed—an event that might be the beginning of a series of executions. ''Mean Business'' was nominated for the Spur and Peacemaker awards, and received a

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for excellence by Booklist and praise from Kirkus Review. In 2013,

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reportedly acquired the rights to the novel to make it into a feature film with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx.

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2014 American novels American crime novels American thriller novels Novels set in Missouri Thomas Dunne Books books {{2010s-crime-novel-stub