One minute aspiring actress Marina Benedict is admiring a baby in a stroller in downtown Pittsburgh, the next she's tracking a man she believes kidnapped the infant, in this uneven debut thriller. After leaving her marriage counselor's...
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Kathleen George, Author . St. Martin’s Minotaur/Dunne $24.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-312-37249-1
George’s solid third Pittsburgh thriller (after 2004’s Fallen
) introduces rookie detective Colleen Greer to the homicide squad. Cmdr. Richard Christie is unsure of inexperienced, overeager Greer, but they hit the ground running after a...
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Kathleen George, Author . Minotaur/Dunne $24.95 (343p) ISBN 978-0-312-54999-2
Four extraordinary and resilient youngsters lift George's enjoyable fourth police procedural to feature Pittsburgh homicide chief Richard Christie and his team (after 2007's Afterimage
). On loan to another department, detectives Colleen...
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Kathleen George, Author BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kans $14.95 (187p) ISBN 978-1-886157-20-0
""Semper fidelis"" could never be the motto of this bleak collection of 10 stories. Its subjects, in their 30s, 40s, and 50s, turn time and time again to extramarital liaisons to combat discontent and loneliness. Viable relationships are few and far
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Kathleen George, Author Dell Publishing Company $6.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-440-23664-1
With its excess of mundane details and paucity of action, George's second novel (after Taken) is more likely to lull readers to sleep than keep them up until the wee hours of the morning. The Pittsburgh police are baffled by the murder of...
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Kathleen George. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-56913-6
In Edgar-finalist George's stellar sequel to The Odds (2009), Cmdr. Richard Christie and Det. Colleen Greer of Pittsburgh Homicide look into a late-night hit-and-run, in which a young woman died. Meanwhile, brothers Jack and Ryan Rutter, the two...
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Kathleen George. Minotaur, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-56914-3
In Edgar-finalist George’s well-constructed sixth police procedural featuring Pittsburgh homicide detective Richard Christie (after 2011’s Hideout), Commander Christie and his crew look into the relatively bloodless murder of beautiful paralegal...
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Kathleen George. Open Road/MysteriousPress.Com, $14.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-4804-4560-4
A tragic murder case preoccupies Richard Christie in George’s so-so seventh novel starring the Pittsburgh, Pa., homicide cop (after 2012’s Simple). Someone stabbed Maggie Brown to death, leaving her seven-year-old son, Matthew, to discover her...
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Kathleen George. Univ. of Pittsburgh, $24.95 (348p) ISBN 978-0-8229-4431-7
Edgar-finalist George (The Odds and six other Richard Christie mysteries) successfully moves to period fiction with this evocative, historically themed whodunit, set in 1989, as the great Johnstown, Pa., flood approaches its centennial. Anticipating
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