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One of the best by Ross Thomas, who was one of the best. He won an Edgar for this one in 1985. Thomas's political thrillers featured dry wit, a deep cynicism about politics, and cool, poker-faced heroes who have been around the block a few times. In this one, an aide to an ambitious senator gets a call telling him that his kid sister, a homicide dick back in their hometown, has been killed by a bomb planted in her car. He goes back for the funeral and finds that she was living well above her mea
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Audiobook: A Briar Patch can be many things: a hiding place, a place to avoid (as in Star Trek), a thicket of prickly bushes, and a place where you can get all tangled up. Ben Gill experiences all of those things in this book.
Felicity Dill, homicide detective, collects rent due on her duplex, gets in her car, and is blown to bits. Her brother, Ben, is an investigator for a Senate subcommittee. He immediately flies down to his hometown where she worked and discovers a mystery. Felicity had paid $ ...more
Felicity Dill, homicide detective, collects rent due on her duplex, gets in her car, and is blown to bits. Her brother, Ben, is an investigator for a Senate subcommittee. He immediately flies down to his hometown where she worked and discovers a mystery. Felicity had paid $ ...more
Unusually, a more "traditional" mystery, with a bit less of the political than normal--but one of his best.
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Sep 25, 2009
Joshua Lax
marked it as to-read
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Karan
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