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White's stunning second crime novel to feature ex-cop and ex-PI Jackson Donne fulfills the promise of his debut, When One Man Dies(2007). Restaurateur Franklin Carter, Donne's obnoxious but rich brother-in-law, hires him to investigate Donne's mother's claims that his grandfather murdered someone. Since Donne's mother is suffering from dementia, the detective has his work cut out for him, even before someone bombs Carter's New York City restaurant and later abducts Carter. When Donne becomes a suspect after his elderly aunt and uncle are gunned down in their quiet New Jersey home, he must ally himself with a sympathetic cop to gain any traction in the case. Readers will readily forgive a major coincidence at the heart of the plot because the author does such a fine job of depicting the inner conflicts of his fallible but ultimately heroic protagonist. (June)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Jackson Donne, stripped of his PI license and office, is working as a security guard. Worse, his Alzheimer's-stricken mother is dying, his brother-in-law's restaurant is destroyed, and his aunt and uncle are murdered. What do these events have to do with long-buried family secrets? Intricate plotting and nonstop action make this a nail-biting read from start to finish. White, winner of the Derringer Award for When One Man Dies, is a writer to watch.
RobertHawk
Posted December 15, 2008
A lot of big named writers praised this one, but I was unimpressed. Just another PI novel. No pizazz whatsoever. Certainly nothing deserving of all the praise.
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Overview
Even generations later, you can't escape. . .the evil that men do.Stripped of his private investigator’s license and slumming it as a night security guard at a Jersey storage facility, Jackson Donne thinks he’s finally hit rock bottom. Then the bottom really falls out: The sister he hasn’t seen in years shows up, needing help.
Turns out Donne’s Alzheimer’s-stricken mother has begun hinting at long-buried family secrets from her hospital bed, suggesting a sinister–even murderous–past. Meanwhile, Donne’s relatives ...