Product Description
“I liked the book. The complex family feelings between Donato and his mother, wife and daughter transform this into something more than just another police procedural. The shadow of Donato’s dead son hanging over the family provides a somber leitmotif for the contemporary action. Donato and Dina command both respect and affection and remind us all too clearly of our own complicated family relations.”
Sara N. Paretsky, author of V.I. Warshawski novels,
BODY WORK, HARDBALL, etc.
“It’s a gripper, indeed. Tough, taut and terrific. An extraordinary variation on the father-daughter relationship. I found myself abandoning my own work until I finished it.”
Dominick Dunne, author of
THE TWO MRS. GRENVILLES, PEOPLE LIKE US, etc.
“This near-perfect thriller shifts pace seamlessly as the narrative glides imperceptibly from killer to hunters.”
BOOKLIST
“Topping his award-winning A Creative Kind of Killer and Razzamatazz Early’s third thriller combines a story of alienated family members with the case of a maniac who is murdering nuns in New York City. The suspense is unremitting.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A serial killer is stalking nuns on the streets of New York. Can he be caught in time to prevent the next atrocious slaying, in time to keep the elite task force ranged against him from being taken off the case? Lieutenant Dina Donato leads this group of seven seasoned officers; but for her own partner she chooses the best cop for the job, her estranged father, currently exiled to one of the city’s worst precincts because of an old unsolved case involving his son.
In this multileveled thriller, a monstrous criminal must be identified; a troubled history; and a police lieutenant must confront everywoman’s task; the conflicting demands of job, child and, in Dina’s case, a love affair with another task force member.
Unrelentingly suspenseful, Donato & Daughter charts the excruciating, minute-by-minute search to find the psychopath whose ritualistic killings only begin to reveal something about him to the cops, while readers come to know him intimately and agonize as time after time he outwits the law.
In this complex story of an Italian-American family, the events satisfyingly converge in a climax both astonishing and shattering.
Sara N. Paretsky, author of V.I. Warshawski novels,
BODY WORK, HARDBALL, etc.
“It’s a gripper, indeed. Tough, taut and terrific. An extraordinary variation on the father-daughter relationship. I found myself abandoning my own work until I finished it.”
Dominick Dunne, author of
THE TWO MRS. GRENVILLES, PEOPLE LIKE US, etc.
“This near-perfect thriller shifts pace seamlessly as the narrative glides imperceptibly from killer to hunters.”
BOOKLIST
“Topping his award-winning A Creative Kind of Killer and Razzamatazz Early’s third thriller combines a story of alienated family members with the case of a maniac who is murdering nuns in New York City. The suspense is unremitting.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A serial killer is stalking nuns on the streets of New York. Can he be caught in time to prevent the next atrocious slaying, in time to keep the elite task force ranged against him from being taken off the case? Lieutenant Dina Donato leads this group of seven seasoned officers; but for her own partner she chooses the best cop for the job, her estranged father, currently exiled to one of the city’s worst precincts because of an old unsolved case involving his son.
In this multileveled thriller, a monstrous criminal must be identified; a troubled history; and a police lieutenant must confront everywoman’s task; the conflicting demands of job, child and, in Dina’s case, a love affair with another task force member.
Unrelentingly suspenseful, Donato & Daughter charts the excruciating, minute-by-minute search to find the psychopath whose ritualistic killings only begin to reveal something about him to the cops, while readers come to know him intimately and agonize as time after time he outwits the law.
In this complex story of an Italian-American family, the events satisfyingly converge in a climax both astonishing and shattering.
