From the award-winning author of "Stronger Than Death" comes a powerful thriller about a woman detective and a nine-year-old boy in danger after he witnesses an act of savagery by one of the most feared criminals in Europe.
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From the award-winning author of "Stronger Than Death" comes a powerful thriller about a woman detective and a nine-year-old boy in danger after he witnesses an act of savagery by one of the most feared criminals in Europe.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Not ex-lib. Hardcover with smooth black paper over boards and black quarter cloth, in white, black and light green illustrated jacket, 8vo. 1st printing. 303pp. + note by author, note on author. Fine/NF to Fine. Former 1 1/2" square yellow barcode label above mid lower edge rear panel of jacket (stubborn; retained to prevent scraping). Book and jacket are otherwise as new: bright, tight, sharp and unmarked. Jacket in Brodart.
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Hardback, 1st edition, Fine in a Fine, mylar protected DJ; an unread (new) book. The author's debut thriller pits a lone woman against an egnimatic killer, 8vo., 304 pages.,
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel. "Det. Insp. Orla McLeod goes undercover in Glasgow's underworld, then heads to the highlands with the nine-year-old boy who saves her life. As the novel opens, Orla is about to become the victim of the infamous gangster who brutally murdered her partner, Luke; her only hope is Jamie, who just saw his mother die and is the only one who can identify the killer. Injured in the crossfire, Jamie is taken by Orla and fellow officer Murdo Cameron to her mother's mountain hideaway to recuperate in the care of Orla's friends. But who are her friends? Someone on her team may be working for the other side and her mother's neighbors may not be what they seem. And even Orla's past including memories of her crusading father's assassination by the Irish villains he tried to put behind bars is not what she thinks it is. Scott's prose suits her tough yet sensitive heroine and her storytelling is equally unflinching. Graphic violence contrasts with wilderness beauty in a thriller that has plenty of touching moments, as when Orla and Murdo manipulate Jamie's computer records to create an artificial family for him. Scott, whose first novel, Hen's Teeth, was a finalist for the Orange Prize, delivers humane characters and supercriminals, romance without sentimentality, and adventure without easy answers. Orla McLeod's American debut ensures that she will take her place in the top ranks of fictional female detectives."--Publishers Weekly.
