Sudden Blow (A Jane Yeats Mystery) [Paperback]

Liz Brady (Author)

Book Description

Series: A Jane Yeats Mystery | Publication Date: May 26, 1998

A motorbike-riding business writer is asked to investigate the death of a tycoon in the first of a new mystery series featuring the irreverent Jane Yeats, a still-grieving widow who smokes and sometimes drinks too much.

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About the Author

Liz Brady, an editor for twenty years, has a Ph.D. in Virginia Woolf from the University of London. She is the author of Tintype (Fiddlehead Poetry Books) and Marian Engel and Her Works (ECW Press). She is currently at work on her next Jane Yeats novel and a non-fiction work on women writers and alcohol. Apart from the fact that they both live in Toronto, Liz Brady refuses to divulge which attributes she shares with her sleuth.

Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Second Story Press (May 26, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1896764053
• ISBN-13: 978-1896764054
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,431,446 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sudden Blow - A Canadian with Attitude!, April 20, 2000

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Nick - Former Book Store owner (Listowel, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sudden Blow (A Jane Yeats Mystery) (Paperback)

Here's a new Canadian author to watch for! Jane Yeats, a Toronto journalist with an attitude, a dog, and a Harley, is one of the neatest characters I've read about in a while! Sure, she has addictions and uses colorful language, but she has a most eclectic entourage of friends, wit, and a tenacity and frankness not often encountered in literature! Told in the first person, we get a great view of the world of modern Toronto and surrounds, with it's upper and lower crusts, characters just like us, and the brutal murder (of a deserving victim!) to unravel before the wrong person gets convicted, or Jane gets killed! I laughed and shuddered while devouring this first novel, and I'm glad to hear that there's another Jane Yeats novel in the works!