Chop Shop is a crime novel

Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...

 by the American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 writer Tim Downs

Tim Downs

Tim Downs is an American author best known for his "Bug Man" series of novels featuring forensic entomologist Dr. Nick Polchak. The series includes the books "Like Flies To A Corpse" later re-named Shoofly Pie , Chop Shop , First the Dead , Less Than Dead , Ends of the Earth , as well as, a new...

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This thriller features Nick “Bug Man” Polchak, a forensic entomologist who deduces clues to murders based on evidence left by insects on the victims. Dr. Riley McKay of the Allegheny County coroner's office is suspicious when analyzing several corpses. She asks Polchak for help, who discovers that a Pittsburgh-based black market in transplant organs seems to be fronted by PharmaGen, a genetics company with interests other than DNA.

Chop Shop is the second in a series of Christian suspense novels featuring “Bug Man” Polchak.