Moonbird Boy [Import] [Paperback]

Abigail Padgett (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Mysterious Press (1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0704345137
• ISBN-13: 978-0704345133
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Abigail Padgett grew up in Vincennes, IN, and holds degrees from Indiana University, the University of Missouri and Washington University, St.Louis. She has taught high school English and college courses in Sociology and Creative Writing in San Diego and Boston, directed an ACLU chapter in Houston and worked as an advocate for the mentally ill, plus enduring some truly weird temp jobs.

Abbie is the author of seven highly acclaimed mystery novels that have been translated into five languages, one novel among which, CHILD OF SILENCE, was made into a movie in France. (Which must have been challenging, since the novel's action takes place in the California desert and features Native American Paiute people.) Her eighth and latest mystery, BONE BLIND, is set in the Boston suburb of Newton, where two horror novelists and a detective just months short of retirement investigate a decades-old unsolved murder the spin from which proves even more deadly than the original crime.

Two new mysteries and a magical realist novel are in various stages.

San Diego is home, although Abbie spends much time on the East Coast and in France, where one of the new mysteries is set. She is a dog person happiest in the company of dachshunds, a lapsed vegetarian with heartland food preferences, and a lifelong fan of Poe, Algernon Blackwood and the Graveyard Poets.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Private Eye Solves Mysteries While Struggling with her Own Manic Depression, April 13, 2009

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This review is from: Moonbird Boy (Bo Bradley Mysteries (Paperback)) (Paperback)

This is an interesting and very readable mystery. Bo, private eye and the protagonist, has manic depressive illness and several supporting characters struggle with mental illness. Padgett's presentation of mental illness, medication, societal attitudes and treatment are empathic and intelligent. I highly recommend this book along with another of Padgett's books, Turtle Baby. by author of Child of Silence & Strawgirl.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting book!, August 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Moonbird Boy (Bo Bradley Mysteries (Paperback)) (Paperback)

This books wraps you in the arms of excitement and suspense because you don't figure out who the killer is until the end. The book just keep you wondering. A complicated story, yet keeps you wanting to read on. Great Book!