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USA Today calls Face Value "Absorbing… Multiple murders and delightfully complex characters help carry a plot that moves from a striptease bar to the guru's mysterious island retreat…A fine, intelligent story," and Newsday says, "Di Palma, a complex and very likeable detective, is in top form in Face Value."
The followers of San Francisco quantum physicist and guru "Brother Mike" thought they were exploring their sexuality and spirituality when he guided them through videotaped group encounters. They didn't know the tapes would end up in the XXX sections of their video stores. Now one former devotee, an old friend of lawyer Laura Di Palma, has come to her new office for advice.
Laura turns for help to her former partner, detective Sandy Arkelett. They haven't spoken since their falling out months ago. But as their case careens from bank offices to porn parlors to a private fantasy island, they're forced to struggle with their own relationship. When Laura discovers—and lies about—multiple dead bodies in a strip club, she finds that new secrets have a way of getting old lovers killed.
Find out why Kirkus Reviews praises a "hair-raising finale," and Booklist says "This latest Laura Di Palma adventure is no exception to the tight plotting, good characterizations, and page-turning suspense that have typified the earlier entries in the series and that make Matera one of the best contemporary mystery novelists… Highly recommend… Matera is too good to miss."
The followers of San Francisco quantum physicist and guru "Brother Mike" thought they were exploring their sexuality and spirituality when he guided them through videotaped group encounters. They didn't know the tapes would end up in the XXX sections of their video stores. Now one former devotee, an old friend of lawyer Laura Di Palma, has come to her new office for advice.
Laura turns for help to her former partner, detective Sandy Arkelett. They haven't spoken since their falling out months ago. But as their case careens from bank offices to porn parlors to a private fantasy island, they're forced to struggle with their own relationship. When Laura discovers—and lies about—multiple dead bodies in a strip club, she finds that new secrets have a way of getting old lovers killed.
Find out why Kirkus Reviews praises a "hair-raising finale," and Booklist says "This latest Laura Di Palma adventure is no exception to the tight plotting, good characterizations, and page-turning suspense that have typified the earlier entries in the series and that make Matera one of the best contemporary mystery novelists… Highly recommend… Matera is too good to miss."
