Laurali R. Wright, Author Scribner Book Company $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19672-5
Odd narrative angles, several cute coincidences and some tangled police work comprise this latest mystery from the acclaimed Canadian author of, most recently, Prized Possessions. Canadian Mountie Karl Alberg seems oblivious to the weird events...
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Laurali R. Wright, Author Scribner Book Company $20.5 (299p) ISBN 978-0-684-19673-2
Edgar winner Wright has crafted another complex psychological study featuring worldly-wise Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg of the Canadian Mounties (last seen in A Touch of Panic). ``Leave the past alone, Maria. The past is past and done with.'' So...
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Laurali R. Wright, Author Scribner Book Company $20.5 (256p) ISBN 978-0-684-81382-0
Although she opens with a forthright murder, Wright (Prized Possessions) eschews the whodunit and even the whydunit to explore dark subplots lacking simple answers. Karl Alberg, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police staff sergeant in the small village of...
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Laurali R. Wright, Author, L. R. Wright, Author Viking Books $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-81089-5
Excellent writing, inventive plots and realistic characters distinguish Wright's mysteries. In the sequel to her Edgar nominee, The Suspect, Sergeant Karl Alberg of the Mounties is getting nowhere trying to find the killer of an unidentified woman...
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Laurali R. Wright, Author, L. R. Wright, Author Penguin Books $4.5 (288p) ISBN 978-0-14-012982-3
RCMP Sgt. Karl Alberg and other residents of Sechelt, British Columbia, introduced in The Suspect encounter Zoe Strahan, a beautiful, aloof killer who has most recently dispatched her blackmail-minded brother and is planning an attack on both her...
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Laurali R. Wright, Author, L. R. Wright, Author Viking Books $18.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-83130-2
The tiny village of Sechelt on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast is the verdant backdrop for Wright's novels of crime and compassion featuring RCMP sergeant Karl Alberg ( A Chill Rain in January ). In this fourth tale, Alberg and his lover,...
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Laurali R. Wright, Author, L. R. Wright, Author Penguin Books $5.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-012981-6
Wright's fourth novel featuring the appealing Royal Canadian Mounted Police sergeant Karl Alberg is set in a tiny village in British Columbia, where a heat wave brings with it violent emotions and murder. (Dec.)
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Laurali R. Wright, Author, L. R. Wright, Author Viking Books $19 (272p) ISBN 978-0-670-84565-1
Forsaking the procedural leanings of her earlier novels featuring Vancouver, B.C., Staff Sgt. Karl Alberg, Wright ( Fall from Grace ) here traces two resonating plots of psychological dysfunction, criss-crossing them in the final sections to grim...
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