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The Mortician's Daughter

by Elizabeth Bloom

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Ginny Lavoie has just been suspended from her job with the NYPD when she gets a late-night phone call from her childhood best friend whose teenage son, Danny, was savagely beaten to death. Now, Ginny is back in the scruffy New England mill town she left more than a decade before to solve the murder of this handsome, popular boy. But as she tries to untangle the secrets and lies simmering beneath the town's surface, Ginny must confront childhood ghosts and new demons. Having sworn to find Danny's killer, she sifts through suspects ranging from the town's resident homeless Vietnam vet to Manhattan hipsters to Danny's own stepfather. But when the town's first murder in recent memory gives way to a second, then a third, Ginny must race to find the killer's identity--before she becomes victim number four

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"At the start of Bloom's twisting, turning sophomore effort (after 2005's See Isabelle Run), Ginny Lavoie, a New York City policewoman under investigation for corruption, receives a distraught phone call from her childhood friend Sonya who lives in Ginny's hometown in western Massachusetts. Sonya's teenage son has been found beaten to death, and she wants Ginny to help sort out what happened — the local authorities are strangely eager to close the case. Back in the depressed, postindustrial town she left years ago, Ginny is compelled to confront a past she has long tried to leave behind. Though some of Bloom's supporting characters strain credibility, she reveals enough of Ginny's interior musings to lend the lead character considerable depth. An excellent sense of place serves the story well, and bits of regional humor further enliven the action." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

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A suspended New York City policewoman returns home to a small New England mill town to investigate the murder of her best friend's son

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A suspended New York City policewoman returns home to investigate the murder of her best friend's son. She races to uncover the killer's identity before she becomes his fourth victim.
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ELIZABETH BLOOM lives in New York City.
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ISBN:
9780892967865
Author:
Bloom, Elizabeth
Publisher:
Mysterious Press
Subject:
City and town life
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - General
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
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Young men
Subject:
Mystery fiction
Subject:
New england
Subject:
Mystery-A to Z
Publication Date:
20060831
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
304
Dimensions:
8.62x5.86x1.08 in. .94 lbs.
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Product details 304 pages Mysterious Press - English 9780892967865 Reviews:
"Publishers Weekly Review" by , "At the start of Bloom's twisting, turning sophomore effort (after 2005's See Isabelle Run), Ginny Lavoie, a New York City policewoman under investigation for corruption, receives a distraught phone call from her childhood friend Sonya who lives in Ginny's hometown in western Massachusetts. Sonya's teenage son has been found beaten to death, and she wants Ginny to help sort out what happened — the local authorities are strangely eager to close the case. Back in the depressed, postindustrial town she left years ago, Ginny is compelled to confront a past she has long tried to leave behind. Though some of Bloom's supporting characters strain credibility, she reveals enough of Ginny's interior musings to lend the lead character considerable depth. An excellent sense of place serves the story well, and bits of regional humor further enliven the action." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"Synopsis" by , A suspended New York City policewoman returns home to a small New England mill town to investigate the murder of her best friend's son
"Synopsis" by , A suspended New York City policewoman returns home to investigate the murder of her best friend's son. She races to uncover the killer's identity before she becomes his fourth victim.
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