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This police thriller/romantic suspense novel is a sequel to DON'T LOOK NOW. Clare Westbrook's love life could use some improvement--she's currently estranged from boyfriend Tony Sonterra, an ambitious Scottsdale homicide detective. Theoretically, her professional life should be just fine; she's used the $20 million inheritance from her father to open up her own law practice in Phoenix, allowing her to defend those who fit her quixotic definition of innocent. But not long after a mentally ill man warns her to beware of dolls, a spray of bullets shatters her office windows, the mentally ill man is murdered...and she discovers a bunch of broken dolls. Unfortunately, Clare's best chance for staying alive is to stick close to Tony--who may, in fact, be the mysterious killer's true target.
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Marlowe`s client, Mrs. Murdock, is a wealthy widow whose antique gold coin has been stolen.
As the story unwinds, it`s clear that Mrs. Murdock`s actions belie her posh surroundings. Chandler draws on his characteristic conflict between the Haves (the clients) and the Have-Nots (Marlowe) in his exploration of greed, trust, love and power in a plot which bears some resemblance to
Gaslight .
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The scene is the Texas-Mexico border, historically a site of conflict and violence, and today a dividing line over which is conducted the business of drug-smuggling and its attendant mayhem. Well-worn and wise in middle age, Rafe Buenrostro of the Belken County Homicide Squad is a master detective. When drug-related slayings begin occurring practically in his own back yard, Buenrostro leads a corps of bicultural sleuths in piercing the mystery of a crime family apparently at war with itself. As cadavers keep turning up on both sides of the Rio Grande, Buenrostro visits the small cantinas, houses of ill repute, and expansive ranches of druglords south of the river -- as well as some well-kept suburban homes on the northern side, seemingly immaculate but profiting equally from the illicit trade. It is in these suburbs that revelations of seamy sex and revenge unfold. In a work that will delight readers of his mystery Partners in Crime as well as his other novels, Rolando Hinojosa reveals a rich cross-section of life among both the high and low inhabitants of the two nations sharing the Rio Grande Valley.
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