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Redemption - Hardcover

Geary, Nancy

 
9780446527545: Redemption
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0446527548 ISBN 13: 9780446527545
Verlag: Warner Books, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

The author of Misfortune once again exposes the dark side of privileged society in a riveting tale of murder, manners, and dark family secrets. After more than 10 years, Frances Pratt returns to Manchester-by-the-Sea, where she spent her childhood summers in the home of an aunt and uncle. A seasoned veteran of criminal investigation but still recovering from the shocking murder of her own stepmother, Frances is relieved to escape to this cozy enclave for her pampered cousin's wedding. This beloved childhood retreat is the last place Frances expects to find herself in the thick of another murder investigation. But on the very day of the wedding, Frances is thrust back into her role as sleuth when she must unravel the mystery surrounding the shocking death of a relative--in this bloodline that seems to have a legacy of murder.

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Nancy Geary lives in Westchester County, New York.

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When Frances Pratt, formerly of the Suffolk County (New York) DA's office, returns for her cousin's wedding to the tony Massachusetts town where she spent childhood summers, she expects a somewhat stuffy weekend-but then Hope Lawrence, the beautiful, bulimic and troubled bride, doesn't show up at the altar. Frances, who's now the president of the Long Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence, finds Hope hanging from a light fixture, an apparent suicide. Frances isn't convinced, however, so she teams up with the good-natured but tough cop Elvis Mallory to find out the truth. There are suspects aplenty: Hope's jealous half-sister, her violent ex-boyfriend (with whom Hope was still intimate) and her fiance's snooty parents, who opposed the marriage. Meanwhile, Hope's own parents harbor a long-buried secret, and the local minister, who was Hope's confidante, has mysterious connections to events as well. The story is a familiar one, competently if not elegantly told through multiple viewpoints. In her second gumshoe outing (after 2001's Misfortune), Frances once again plays the career woman exposing the dirty secrets of the moneyed classes, but Geary's evocations of buttoned-up privilege ("We're WASPs, remember? We don't talk about problems") fails to go beyond glancing and superficial. Fanny's affair with her sweet, potato-farming next-door neighbor offers a break from all the whodunit speculation, but these interludes are few and far between. Poor Hope may be the most interesting character here, in part for her troubles and in part for her necessary silence, which lends her a kind of dignity that many of the other characters lack.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Verlag
Warner Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0446527548
ISBN 13 
9780446527545
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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