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Libro 6 de 11: The Skip Langdon Series

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9780804112734: The Kindness of Strangers
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ISBN 10: 0804112738 ISBN 13: 9780804112734
Editorial: Ivy Books,U.S., 1997

Sinopsis

Temporarily on leave from the New Orleans police force, Detective Skip Langdon attempts to expose the truth behind a preacher and mayoral candidate and finds himself the target of a shadowy group of hatchet men. Reprint.

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Julie Smith, a former reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the San Francisco Chronicle, has written seven novels featuring Skip Langdon. The first book in the series, New Orleans Mourning, won the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Other Skip Langdon titles include Crescent City Kill, The Kindness of Strangers, The Axeman's Jazz, House of Blues, New Orleans Beat, and Jazz Funeral. Smith recently married and moved back to New Orleans where she lives in a 1830s Creole Town House with its very own ghost and serial murder story.

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THLESS THRILLER . . . Smith pushes her protagonist to the breaking point and the series to a new high water mark of suspense."<br>--Los Angeles Times<br><br>On temporary leave of absence from the force, Police Detective Skip Langdon becomes obsessed with exposing the frightening figure beneath the good-guy image of Errol Jacomine--a liberal-minded, civic-spirited preacher who is running for mayor of New Orleans.<br><br>Immediately, an anonymous army of hatchet men go to work on Skip, who learns that opposing Jacomine is dangerous business. And when the only witness to the preachers crimes turns up dead, Skip follows her instincts to the dark center of bayou country . . . where dead cops tell no tales.<br><br>"Displays the writing skills of one of the genres leading exponents . . . The climax, a frantic rescue effort in the teeth of Hurricane Hannah, will stay with you."<br>--The Cleveland Plain Dealer

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Editorial
Ivy Books,U.S.
Año de publicación
1997
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0804112738
ISBN 13 
9780804112734
Encuadernación
Libro de bolsillo
Número de páginas
358
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
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