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Denise Hamilton, whose phenomenal debut,
The Jasmine Trade, was an Edgar Award finalist that Michael Connelly hailed as gripping...intriguing...more than a good crime novel," brings back her tenacious heroine, Eve Diamond, in an electrifying new novel of suspense.
When a distraught father breaks past security to beg for her help, Los Angeles Times reporter Eve Diamond can't refuse. His daughter, caught up in the rough "squatter" lifestyle, is missing -- and Eve, sensing a scoop, wants to know why a privileged teen from Pasadena would hook up with the dregs of Hollywood. When the girl is found dead, Eve suspects there is more going on than the tragic death of a rebellious youth.
The search for answers will take Eve from the street world of drugs and sex to the upper echelon of L.A. society -- who don't appreciate her digging up their dirt. Even as Eve fights against the powers-that-be who want her off the story, she finds herself mixing business and pleasure when she's irresistibly drawn to the brooding son of a Mexican music titan. For it is in his world -- and in the intricate sugar skulls that mark the Mexican "Day of the Dead" -- that Eve may find the key to unmasking a killer....
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Recensione
Denver Rocky Mountain News
Thrilling.
Publishers Weekly
Passionate.
Phoenix New Times
Suspenseful.
Los Angeles Times
Exhilarating...so absorbing you don't want to stop reading.
Denver Post
Denise Hamilton and Eve Diamond are the real deal.
L'autore
Denise Hamilton is a Los Angeles-based writer-journalist whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Wired, Cosmopolitan, Der Spiegel, and New Times. During her ten years with the Los Angeles Times, she worked as a suburban reporter, covering the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the breakup of the Soviet Union, and burgeoning youth movements in Japan. A Fulbright scholar, she taught in the former Yugoslavia during the Bosnian War. Her first Eve Diamond novel, The Jasmine Trade, was a finalist for the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Willa awards. Her new Eve Diamond novel, Last Lullaby, will be available soon in hardcover from Scribner. She lives in a Los Angeles suburb with her husband and two young children.
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- EditorePocket Star
- Data di pubblicazione2008
- ISBN 10 1416572317
- ISBN 13 9781416572312
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine400
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