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Word count: 1988. ... Read more

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7 Paperboack Books - Tami Hoag Collection: Dust To Dust, Night Sins, Dark Horse, Magic, Lucky's Lady, Ashes To Ashes & A Thin Dark Line ... Read more

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Set of four Tami Hoag's New York Times Bestsellers: A Thin Dark Line, Night Sins, Dark Paradise, and Guilty as Sin. ... Read more

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Sorry. The single word was written on a mirror. In front of it hung the Minneapolis Internal Affairs cop. Was it suicide? Or a kinky act turned tragic?

Either way, it wasn’t murder. At least not according to the powers that be. But veteran homicide detective Sam Kovac and his wisecracking, ambitious partner Nikki Liska think differently. Together they begin to dig at the too-neat edges of the young cop’s death, uncovering one motive and one suspect after another. The shadows of suspicion fall not only on the city’s elite, but into the very heart of the police department.

Someone wants the case closed–quickly and forever. But neither Kovac nor Liska will give up. Now both their careers and their lives are on the line. From a murder case two months old to another case closed for twenty years, Kovac and Liska must unearth a connection the killer wants dead and buried. A killer who will stop at absolutely nothing to keep a dark and shattering secret . . . ... Read more

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Full length audiobook on 10 cassettes. Read by Beth MacDonald. ... Read more

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"Hard-Boiled" Detective Story
Tami Hoag has written what was traditionally labeled hard-boiled detective fiction. In this case the protagonist is a former policewoman, severely injured in an incident two years before the period of the novel's action. She had made an "instinctive" rather than mandated decision which ended badly, she injured and another police officer killed. She was still recuperating her physical strength but even more relevant, she had suffered serious psychological trauma from which she was far from recovered. As part of her recuperation process, she taken a menial job on an estate where she deals directly with horses. She is sufficiently wealthy not to need other employment. One day, a 12 year old girl approaches her with the request that she help find her 18 year old sister, who has been missing for some time, nobody taking seriously the need tolook for her.
The book opens with a presentation of these facts. More, of course, I cannot reveal under the terms of the long-lived convention of mystery story reviewers.
The reader is excellent, capable of endowing both her male and female characters with life and distinctive identity.
The physical and psychological action in this picture of a corrupt racing world is unfolded; however, there is no intention to make this any sort of expose. It is a fictional stage for the action.
Overall, both general readers and fans of the hard-boiled variety of mystery story, should find this satisfying. It is not of the first rank but engaging nonetheless.
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Popular, if not necessarily today's top fiction--
I'm sure many millions of Americans and Canadians remember fondly those little Reader's Digest Condensed Books, which held sway in mostly hardback form in millions of home libraries until fairly recently.This kind of book is now called "Select Editions," but it retains the old idea of four books condensed into one thickish (600 page) tome.

But times have changed, the public's taste has changed, and the new book adheres more closely to the modern preference for genre fiction like sleuth or "chick-lit" tellings instead of fiction that claimed -- not always successfully -- to have some claim on posterity.I notice that my parent's bookshelf holds a Condensed Book from 1960--three novels and Booker T. Washington's memoirs.That would not happen today because the Washington bio is non-fiction and because it is too serious--possibly too challenging.

The first book in Volume 279 (2005) has elements both of chick-lit and of whodunit:Tami Hoag's KILL THE MESSENGER.An innocent bicycle messenger is threatened and drawn into a conspiracy against his will.To his help come a police dept. neophyte Abby Lowell, and a grizzled detective, Kev Parker.The plot is suitably fun and jiggy, but the relationship between the two leads is a little on the routine side.Still, the Los Angeles locales are well rendered here; it's that kind of local detail that often gets left out of substantially abridged tomes like this one.

THE QUEEN OF THE BIG TIME by Adriana Trigiani is truly an epic:it follows a lonely prairie woman from 1927 to 1966, her travails, her relationships and loves.Perhaps a little more self-consciously "sprawling" than it needs to be, but the author's heartfelt admiration of her pioneering character comes through.

MURDER AT THE B-SCHOOL by Jeffrey Cruikshank was probably the most successful book of the four in its original full-length release.It is essentially a 21st-Century "cozy" set in New England.When a Harvard Business School instructor is ordered to help a family whose son was just murdered(?) on campus, he finds out the family live in baronial splendor and he isn't able to "help" the way he was ordered to.The mystery holds up pretty well, but I suspect the shape of this classic whodunit worked better in the original.There are, however, sincere attempts to capture the ambience of Harvard and of downtown Boston.

Jennifer Connely's A NORTHERN LIGHT is classic "chick-lit" if ever I saw one.Mattie, a deserving young woman from a poor background has as her chief desire in life the ability to attend college.But [here I borrow from the jacket], [W]hen tragedy strikes at the lakeside hotel where she works, Mattie discovers just how powerful words--and dreams--can be."Not really my cup of tea, but Mattie's voice remains passionate and intelligent, and she stays in character.

A discerning shopper can get some real deals from Amazon.My copy of Select Editions -- in paperback!-- cost $26.00 by the time I paid tax and S&H.By contrast, new and relatively recent examples of this series can be had on Amazon at less than half that price, perhaps a tenth for a used paperback. ... Read more

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Vigilantism can be swift and lethal, but it does not always carry the banner of justice. For Deputy Sheriff Annie Broussard, an attempt to honor the law traps her between the prime suspect in a vicious crime and her own colleagues on the force. And she's unsure which side, if either, is to be trusted. Set in the bayou country of Louisiana, A Thin Dark Line explores dark psychological territory while weaving through a complex plot rife with sordid characters and unlikely heroes. As the author of Night Sins and Guilty as Sin, Tami Hoag lives up to her reputation as a master of suspense. ... Read more