Cool in Tucson - Couverture souple

Gunn, Elizabeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1502361191 ISBN 13 : 9781502361196

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Before she started to write, Elizabeth Gunn made her living as an innkeeper in Montana, while indulging hobbies as a private pilot, live-aboard sailor, and SCUBA diver. “I like adventure,” she says, “but I was always sure I’d settle down some day and write books.” Turned out she was right. Beginning in 1997, she’s written fifteen mystery novels, a fair-sized row of short stories, critiques, and a novella. And yes, of course, she’s at work on another novel. TRIPLE PLAY was the first of the Minnesota mysteries, and the series has progressed through the numbers—the latest is ELEVEN LITTLE PIGGIES. The setting is Minnesota, where the author grew up. The pace of change, and the beautiful countryside being gobbled up by fast-growing cities, form a recurring motif throughout the series. COOL IN TUCSON started a second series after she moved to Arizona. From the green land of ten thousand lakes to the dry heat of a polyglot desert city is quite a jump. The Tucson stories reflect the gritty ambience, eighty miles from the Mexican border and in summer “too hot to spit,” one of her characters remarks. Marilyn Stasio, mystery critic for the New York Times, called Gunn’s novels “precision-tooled procedurals.” While she loves police ride-alongs, and is known for careful depiction of the latest bells and whistles, Gunn says she enjoys writing mostly “for the chance to build characters and turn them loose on each other. People-watching, that’s what’s fun.”

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Tucson police detective Sarah Burke, smart and ambitious, worries that Sergeant Delaney, her superior on the homicide squad, seems to have a grudge against her. Still smarting from a painful divorce, she puts personal concerns aside to concentrate on a body found in a parking lot. The case takes a bizarre turn when Sarah's young niece, Denny, neglected by her substance-abusing mother and struggling to stay in school, disappears. The search is complicated by interference from the drug ring that the suspected murderer's been working for, and Sarah's growing romantic interest in a troubled colleague rebuilding his life after injury...

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1502361191
• ISBN 13: 9781502361196
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 300