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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Phillips's third crime novel (Fall from Grace; Blindsided) featuring diminutive but brassy San Francisco lady cop Jane Candiotti-newly promoted to homicide lieutenant and also newly married to her police sidekick, homicide inspector Kenny Marks-tears up the pages, sirens blaring and lights flashing, at car-chase speed. A billionaire Silicon Valley philanthropist famous for helping needy children is found murdered in a hotel parking garage just after donating $50 million to build a cancer wing on a children's hospital. Scarcely an hour later, a black skid-row bum is found stabbed to death. Jane, under pressure from the billionaire's snooty widow, struggles to give equal attention to both cases. She is further frustrated by the manipulations of an ambitious female underling who resents Jane assigning her to the case of the street bum. Soon, other murders connected to the skid-row stabbing-by an "S" scrawled in blood at the crime scenes-make it obvious that a serial killer is on the loose. As the "S" murders proliferate, anonymous letters arrive linking the two original cases. In an election year, political pressure from the top increases, and the media join the philanthropist's wife, taking up the cry to bring the serial killer to justice. There are few surprises here, but Phillips is a skilled craftsman and follows in the footsteps of Ed McBain with this solid police procedural series.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Newly married and newly promoted, you'd think Lieutenant Jane Candiotti of the San Francisco Police Department should be feeling great. But her marriage partner, Inspector Kenny Marks, is also her work partner, whom she now supervises. The two are still feeling their way around this strange new dynamic when a prominent local philanthropist is murdered, and several less newsworthy citizens are killed in quick succession. Jane struggles to give equal time to all the crimes despite pressure from high places to concentrate on the "important" victim, and she becomes increasingly convinced that the deaths are all connected. An angry, rich widow; an inept new employee; and ongoing friction with the irritable chief add to her problems as the death toll mounts, and the killer starts to strike much too close to home. The plot in Phillips' third Candiotti novel may play a secondary role to Jane's personal and professional challenges, but this is still a solid entry in a popular series. Carrie Bissey
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Phillips's third crime novel (Fall from Grace; Blindsided) featuring diminutive but brassy San Francisco lady cop Jane Candiotti-newly promoted to homicide lieutenant and also newly married to her police sidekick, homicide inspector Kenny Marks-tears up the pages, sirens blaring and lights flashing, at car-chase speed. A billionaire Silicon Valley philanthropist famous for helping needy children is found murdered in a hotel parking garage just after donating $50 million to build a cancer wing on a children's hospital. Scarcely an hour later, a black skid-row bum is found stabbed to death. Jane, under pressure from the billionaire's snooty widow, struggles to give equal attention to both cases. She is further frustrated by the manipulations of an ambitious female underling who resents Jane assigning her to the case of the street bum. Soon, other murders connected to the skid-row stabbing-by an "S" scrawled in blood at the crime scenes-make it obvious that a serial killer is on the loose. As the "S" murders proliferate, anonymous letters arrive linking the two original cases. In an election year, political pressure from the top increases, and the media join the philanthropist's wife, taking up the cry to bring the serial killer to justice. There are few surprises here, but Phillips is a skilled craftsman and follows in the footsteps of Ed McBain with this solid police procedural series.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Newly married and newly promoted, you'd think Lieutenant Jane Candiotti of the San Francisco Police Department should be feeling great. But her marriage partner, Inspector Kenny Marks, is also her work partner, whom she now supervises. The two are still feeling their way around this strange new dynamic when a prominent local philanthropist is murdered, and several less newsworthy citizens are killed in quick succession. Jane struggles to give equal time to all the crimes despite pressure from high places to concentrate on the "important" victim, and she becomes increasingly convinced that the deaths are all connected. An angry, rich widow; an inept new employee; and ongoing friction with the irritable chief add to her problems as the death toll mounts, and the killer starts to strike much too close to home. The plot in Phillips' third Candiotti novel may play a secondary role to Jane's personal and professional challenges, but this is still a solid entry in a popular series. Carrie Bissey
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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IT WAS PHILIP Iverson's big night. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dispatch console, male hooker, stairwell door, parking structure, squad room Key Phrases