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- ISBN: 9780765374950
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382 pages ; 25cm. - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Forge Books, 2015.
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| General Note: | "A Tom Doherty Associates book." |
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| Subject: | Women journalists -- Fiction Police -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Fiction Investigative journalists -- Fiction Parental kidnapping -- Fiction Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Mystery fiction. Suspense fiction. |
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- 5 of 5 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Castlegar Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 5 total copies.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Castlegar Public Library | MYS RYA (Text) | 35146001944131 | Mystery | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2015 September #1
Jane Ryland's resignation from a Boston newspaper is a boon to her relationship with Detective Jake Brogan, since a reporter involved with a cop skirts ethical boundaries. But when a television station courting Ryland offers her impromptu freelance work, she bumps into Brogan on duty just after a man is stabbed in crowded Curley Park. Then a college-student photographer wannabe, who filmed the murder and connected with Ryland, is himself stabbed near police headquarters. While Ryland tries to follow the story, a family emergency intrudes: her younger sister is about to be married, and her fiancé's nine-year-old daughter has gone missing, apparently snatched by the girl's stepfather. Although the missing-child subplot engenders some suspense, it serves mainly to round out the character of Ryland. But the main murder investigation zips along at high speed, uncovering city-hall shenanigans, extortion, and a dirty cop along the way. Not quite as adrenaline-fueled as earlier series entries, but still a skillfully wrought procedural with winning protagonists. Copyright 2014 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2015 August #2
Think all those surveillance cameras in public places will keep you safe and solve every crime? An intrepid Boston journalist and her police detective boyfriend find out that they probably won't. Veteran TV reporter Jane Ryland and homicide cop Jake Brogan have seen a lot in their respective careers. And they still see each other as often as they can, even though both work to keep their romance relatively quiet since cops and reporters aren't allowed to fraternize. Even so, the hours they spend apart are especially hectic and unnerving in Ryan's latest mystery-thriller (Truth Be Told, 2014, etc.). To begin with, there's a fatal broad-daylight stabbing in Curley Park near City Hall. Lots of cameras are around, but Jake and his colleagues can't quite figure out who's been killed and who the perp or perps might be. And one young woman working with the city's digital camera system can't understand why her boss cuts off her attempt to retrieve video of the incident. The peripateti cally employed Jane, meanwhile, is dispatched to the scene by one of the local TV stations just to "gather facts" and is pestered by a wannabe paparazzi who claims to have some pertinent pictures of what happened. And in the middle of this chaos, Jane gets a phone call from her soon-to-be-married sister saying her fiance's 9-year-daughter from a previous marriage, who's supposed to be their flower girl, is missing. The clock's ticking on both cases, which, despite their differences, have darker forces of extortion, abduction, and corruption in high places lurking beneath their surfaces. Ryan, writing her fourth Jane Ryland novel, displays her trademark flair for knotty plotting, though it sometimes seems she's taking on more details than she can easily handle-just like her appealing protagonists. As the dual narratives rumble toward their respective climaxes, you somehow feel as though you're pushed too hard and strung along too much at the same time. Still, this novel retai n s enough craftiness and jaunty humor to make it worth a night or two of breakneck reading. Reading this book will offer a perverse comfort to those who think our screen-infested culture curtails any possibility of genuine mystery. Looks can still deceive in the digital age. Copyright Kirkus 2015 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2015 September #1
Unemployed reporter Jane Ryland finds herself in the right place at the right time when, while on a job interview at Channel 2, she is offered an impromptu opportunity to freelance and cover breaking newsâa murder in a busy city park. Will eyewitness accounts, cellphones from the crowd, or local surveillance cameras help solve the crime, or are some things not as they appear? As Jane's love interest, Det. Jake Brogan, works to crack the complex case, Jane gets ensnared in a situation closer to home, that of a missing child. In a whirlwind 48 hours, Jane and Jake are entangled in a quagmire of circumstances that quickly escalate and ultimately expose deceit, corruption, and secrets. The more layers that are peeled away, the more surprises that are revealed. VERDICT Ryan's latest thriller (after Truth Be Told) is built like an intricate house of cards, threatening to crumble at any second. Mystery readers get ready: you will find yourself racing to the finish.âMary Todd Chesnut, Northern Kentucky Univ. Lib., Highland Heights
[Page 96]. (c) Copyright 2015 Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2015 August #5
Mary Higgins Clark Awardâwinner Ryan deftly handles four distinct story lines in her strong fourth Jane Ryland novel (after 2014's Truth Be Told). A man has been stabbed to death in a public square across from Boston's historic Faneuil Hall in broad daylight; a troubled college student deals with a boring job and survivor guilt following her perfect older sister's death; and newly unemployed reporter Jane, having quit her job for ethical reasons, finds herself thrust into a freelance gig covering the Faneuil Hall murder that her secret love interest, Det. Jake Brogan, is investigating. Finally, Gracie, the child of Jane's sister's fiancé, appears to have been kidnapped by Gracie's stepfather. As the story races onâand it does move fastâthe layers of connection among these plot threads gradually become clear. Fully drawn characters, palpable suspense, and not one, but two unexpected endings are a plus. There's even some humor in the way Jane can't catch a break job-wise. Agent: Lisa Gallagher, Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. (Oct.)
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