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Product Identifiers
PublisherSt. Martin's Press
ISBN-100312280033
ISBN-139780312280031
eBay Product ID (ePID)1811001
Product Key Features
Book TitleCold Blue Blood
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicContemporary Women, Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, African American / General, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Mystery & Detective / General
Publication Year2001
FeaturesRevised
GenreFiction
AuthorDavid Handler
Book SeriesBerger and Mitry Mysteries Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight16.6 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-041804
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"The beginning of what looks to be a swell series."--Susan Isaacs "A true delight. Chock-full of wry observations and propelled by a compelling plot."--Jeffery Deaver, author of The Blue Nowhere and The Empty Chair "Handler has created an engaging odd couple, whose further adventures promise to win the same strong following as his Stewart Hoag series."-- Publishers Weekly, "The beginning of what looks to be a swell series."--Susan Isaacs "A true delight. Chock-full of wry observations and propelled by a compelling plot."--Jeffery Deaver, author of The Blue Nowhere and The Empty Chair "Handler has created an engaging odd couple, whose further adventures promise to win the same strong following as his Stewart Hoag series."--Publishers Weekly
Series Volume Number1
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisMitch Berger, a top film critic with a major New York newspaper at a surprisingly young age, has become almost a recluse since his wife died one year ago. He spends his time secluded in his apartment or in the dark recesses of a screening room. Although he continues to dazzle moviegoers and the film elite with his criticisms, his editor and good friend is alarmed about him. As a scheme to pull him out of the doldrums of his grief, she gives him a non-film assignment - to do a color story onthe wealthy and social homeowners on Connecticut's Gold Coast. It takes some doing, but in the end Mitch agrees.He is fortunate to find a cottage to rent on Big Sister, the absolute top-of-the-line private island outside the town of Dorset. His landlady, Dolly, is pleasant and friendly, but some of the other inhabitants of this small piece of land, although too well bred to come right out and say it, are not happy to have Mitch, born of parents only one generation away from Eastern Europe and raised on the city's pavements, arrive in their back yard. But Dolly, whose husband has recently left her, needs the money, and at least she is more than gracious.The discovery of a body during a bout of optimistic gardening in Dolly's back yard brings on the other main player - Lieutenant Desiree Mitry, one of only three women on the Connecticut State Police major crimes squad, the youngest of the three, and the only black. A dedicated officer, she is the terror of everyone who doesn't really want to give a home to one of her stray cats. She is, as well, a closet artist and a complicated and beautiful woman, and she intrigues Mitch from the start.
LC Classification NumberPS3558.A4637C35 2001
