A Long Time Dead [Large Print] [Hardcover]

A.J. Orde (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1996

WHO WOULD MURDER A MAN WITH AIDS?
Denver antiques dealer Jason Lynx has a deep interest in answering that question. For the victim was Ron Willis, brother of policewoman Grace Willis, the woman Jason hopes to marry.
There's not much to go on: only Ron's address book and his desperate search for cash the night before his death. Of course there is also the mysterious skeleton that rescue workers find near Ron's body--surprisingly on property belonging to the Credable family, a Denver dynasty built on violence and greed. These days the Credables are the soul of upper-class respectability. Or so it seems.
Goaded by Grace's irrational response to the tragedy, Jason inches toward the truth--about a killer, himself, and the woman he loves....
"Orde writes with a firm, precise voice and Lynx is a well-drawn and likable character."
--San Antonio Express News

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Murder is murder, and there are only so many ways that the villain in a mystery can do in the victim to get the story rolling. Or so I thought, until Sharyn McCrumb (and now A.J. Orde) topped the heap, at least in my book, for originality. In A LONG TIME DEAD the villain not only decides to murder a man who is dying of AIDS -- coals to Newcastle, I would have thought -- but takes him and an outhouse out with a load of dynamite. For sheer novelty, that method does stand out, but fortunately what you'll also find is a well-written and well-paced mystery.

A.J. Orde is a prolific writer, incidentally. Under her own name, Sheri S. Tepper, she writes a popular science fiction series, while, as B.J. Oliphant, she writes the Shirley McClintock mystery series. If you've read any of the McClintock mysteries, you're in for a surprise here. Her (A. J. Orde) sleuth, Denver interior designer and antiques dealer Jason Lynx, is as smooth as Shirley is crusty, but they're equally likable people. A bonus of the Jason Lynx mysteries is the antiques lore you'll pick up along the way.

--Margaret Sanborn, Senior Publicity Copywriter --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Inside Flap

WHO WOULD MURDER A MAN WITH AIDS?
Denver antiques dealer Jason Lynx has a deep interest in answering that question. For the victim was Ron Willis, brother of policewoman Grace Willis, the woman Jason hopes to marry.
There's not much to go on: only Ron's address book and his desperate search for cash the night before his death. Of course there is also the mysterious skeleton that rescue workers find near Ron's body--surprisingly on property belonging to the Credable family, a Denver dynasty built on violence and greed. These days the Credables are the soul of upper-class respectability. Or so it seems.
Goaded by Grace's irrational response to the tragedy, Jason inches toward the truth--about a killer, himself, and the woman he loves....
"Orde writes with a firm, precise voice and Lynx is a well-drawn and likable character."
--San Antonio Express News --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 390 pages
• Publisher: Magna Large Print Books; Large Print edition edition (January 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0750509392
• ISBN-13: 978-0750509398
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,757,089 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Long Time Dead, June 27, 2011

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Mary Witt (Kenosha, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Long Time Dead (Mass Market Paperback)

A. J. Orde writes a very good series. I was glad to fill in the last two books. I hope more are coming.

4.0 out of 5 stars Tight and Tidy, June 12, 2008

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M, Compulsive Reader (Santa Cruz, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Long Time Dead (Mass Market Paperback)

Jason Lynx and environs are always interesting. This is a triple-stranded book, braiding bits concerning Jason's love Grace's brother's death, a crickety little man being harrased over the family monstrosity of a house by his odious cousin, and Jason needing Grace to commit to marriage. Add an old friend's desire to set up a think-tank to benefit Colorado's ecology, the state long-stripped of minerals and trees by robber barons, the separate disappearance a generation ago of two friends, a client eagerly anticipating marriage to a man known to the police to be a woman-beater, Orde's fully sketched secondary characters, and you will gulp this story. As well, Jason has referred in previous books to be a Navy demolition expert, and this time we see him in action.

Treat yourself to this series! You're worth it! (Read in chronological order as characters are introduced, and develop throughout the books.)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Always above average, January 15, 1999

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puffinswan "puffinswan" (Brigadoon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Long Time Dead (Mass Market Paperback)

Orde, Oliphant, Tepper-whatever name you know her by-she's an always entertaining and thought provoking author.