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Set in late 20th-century New York City, Doctorow's capacious and very postmodern novel begins when a brass crucifix is stolen from St. Timothy's church on the Lower East Side. The pastor, Father Pemberton, is in the midst of a spiritual crisis, and as he searches for the cross through a lyrically described New York City, he encounters a group of progressive Jews, including a rabbi named Sarah whose father's account of his Holocaust experiences forms part of the spine of the novel. Gradually, Father Pemberton begins to veer away from Christianity and become obsessed with Jewish issues, particularly the Holocaust. The story is framed by the diary kept by Father Pemberton's novelist friend, who is writing about the priest, and is narrated by a wide variety of voices and characters, including Frank Sinatra. Defending the seeming chaos of the novel, Doctorow said, in a New York Times interview, What I found here was this book mimics the rhythm of the mind as we have it today, he said. We're all hopping around buzzing from information. The whole culture is full of that. If I write a book that gets its tension from discontinuities, I've found a template for the way we're thinking.
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The wife of a hated divorce lawyer becomes the main suspect in his murder and hires private detective, Kinsey Millhone, to find the real killer.
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A riveting suspense thriller about the reuniting of birth mothers with their adopted children and the madman who preys on them.After two highly praised psychological thrillers, Mark Nykanen returns with his most spellbinding story yet. Suzanne Trayle is a Search Angel whose success in tracking down and reuniting birth mothers with their adopted children has earned her national fame. Known as The Orphan's Private Eye, Suzanne has reunited thousands of mothers with their children, but has failed to find the son she put up for adoption thirty years ago.A serial killer dubbing himself The Searcher contacts Suzanne, claiming to have located her now-grown child. In a chilling twist, The Searcher systematically begins to murder Suzanne's clients, and vows to kill her son and his family -- including Suzanne's only grandchild -- if she tries to stop him. Caught between her fears for her son and her desire to protect her birth mothers, Suzanne lays a harrowing trap to try and lure The Searcher her way. Ingeniously plotted and nightmarishly realistic,Search Angel is a fearsome tale steeped in love, hate, and the unbridled terror that can link them both.
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A thriller...a novel...a fun thing, an entertainment and good reading.LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEWWho would want to kill Clarence Sutherland, a bright and handsome young man? The answer: practically everybody.
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