- American Detective and mystery stories, Short stories, American Short stories, Mystery fiction
The title applies in several ways to this wicked collection of crime short stories, to many of the stories' characters and protagonists, who include murderers, adulterers, thieves; to the stories' arcs, which offer numerous bends and suprises.
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Contemporary, spare, grave and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Jeffery Deaver
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Pocket, Simon & Schuster Audio
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- Italian, English
- ISBN
- 9780743260954
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“Marissa Cooper turned her car onto Route 232, which would take her from Portsmouth to Green Harbor, twenty miles away.”
Jeffery Deaver is an international number-one bestselling author. His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world. His books are sold in 150 countries and translated into twenty-five languages. He has served two terms as president of Mystery Writers of America, and was recently named a Grand Master of MWA, whose ranks include Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, Mary Higgins Clark and Walter Mosely. - https://www.jefferydeaver.com/about/
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