- Women detectives, Murder, Imagery (Psychology), Fiction
In the humid dog days of a Pittsburgh summer weekend, Richard Christie, Head of Homicide, faces not one, but two mysterious murders. The victims---a polite woman and an angelic child---do not seem to be connected in any obvious way.
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Contemporary, earnest, grave and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Kathleen George
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 313
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Minotaur, Thomas Dunne Books
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780312372491
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