Hot Pursuit [Paperback]

Nora Kelly (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 15, 2007

A great city is a mirror reflecting everyone's dreams and desperation. From Arthur Ellis Award winner Nora Kelly comes a powerful suspense story set in London.
Gillian Adams has moved to London to live with policeman Edward Gisborne, her lover of many years. Feeling displaced, she seeks out her old friend Charlotte, once a brilliant television producer. But Charlotte is sunk in despair, and her daughter Olivia, a young actress, is fleeing from a disturbed fan who may be a dangerous stalker. London, on the brink of the new millennium, boils with traffic, money and a record heat wave. After Charlotte is found dead, events gather towards an explosive climax as Olivia confronts her pursuer and the terrible sequel to a hidden past. Complex characters, diamond-sharp prose and a vivid sense of London old and new draw the reader into a novel of suspense in which love, obsession, tragedy and renewal are inextricably linked.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In Kelly's fifth polished cozy to feature Canadian professor Gillian Adams (after Old Wounds, winner of the 1999 Arthur Ellis Best Novel Award), Gillian has moved from Vancouver to London to share a flat with her longtime lover, Edward Gisborne, a Scotland Yard Inspector. When our heroine looks up an old friend, Charlotte Douglas, who's been unwell since her husband left her years before, Gillian learns that Charlotte's actress daughter, Olivia Bening, has just made her first major film. Unfortunately, a very disturbed young man, Kevin Brody, has been stalking Olivia. The astute reader will recognize the lad for a time bomb. Kevin takes an awfully long time to go off, but provides just about the only suspense, apart from Charlotte's mysterious death in her garden. Otherwise, the plot proceeds by a series of chats. Charlotte and Olivia share a dark secret that is as predictable as most everything else in the novel. On the plus side, the author excels in giving us a feel for contemporary London during a heat wave ("As stragglers from after-hours clubs fell from taxis into unmade beds, the mercury climbed, and the soft, dusky faces of terraces and warehouses hardened in the daylight"), and her characters do have a solidity about them. One can believe Olivia is an actress and Kevin a mental case. And Kevin's explosive finale is genuinely exciting. Kelly has a loyal following, and while this latest is not up to her usual high standard, her fans will look forward to it just the same.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Library Journal

Canadian professor Gillian Adams has just moved to London to live with longtime lover Edward, a Scotland Yard inspector; here she reconnects with old friend Charlotte as well. Charlotte has changed, though; she seems lax, undemonstrative, and withdrawn perhaps because her ex-husband has a young new wife and Charlotte's starlet daughter has a fast life and an ominous stalker. But then Gillian discovers Charlotte's dead body and must solve her murder. Seasoned prose, marvelous characters, provocative situations, and steady suspense make this a recommended choice for fans of academic cozies. Kelly's previous Gillian Adams mystery, Old Wounds, was awarded the Arthur Ellis Best Novel Award in 1999 from the Canadian Crime Writers Association.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 325 pages
• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press (June 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590580184
• ISBN-13: 978-1590580189
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,146,144 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Literate mystery, July 22, 2002

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Alicia K. Ahlvers "alibrarian" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hot Pursuit (Hardcover)

After the death of her mother, Gillian Adams has decided that life is too short not to spend time with the people that she loves. To achieve that, she has sold her home in Vancouver and moved to London where she shares a flat with her lover, Edward, a detective with Scotland Yard. She also renews her friendship with Charlotte and Charlotte's daughter, Olivia. Gillian becomes concerned when she finds out that Olivia is being stalked by a disturbed young man named Kevin and when Charlotte dies under mysterious circumstances the race is on to stop the killer. I have read the entire series, starting with In The Shadow Of King's c1984, and have enjoyed these highly literate novels that follow Gillian and Edward from Cambridge to Vancouver to London. Highly recommended.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nora At Her Best, August 9, 2002

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Jane Clymer (Fair Play, South Carolina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hot Pursuit (Hardcover)

This is one of the best books I have read in a long time. The words just flew off the pages, and put me in London with Gillian. When I can look at the people I have found a good read.