Briarpatch

A cop is car-bombed in Texas-and her brother comes from Capitol Hill to investigate-in this Edgar Award winner by "one of the best storytellers around" (The New York Times Book Review).

A long-distance call from his small Texas hometown on his birthday gives Benjamin Dill the news that his sister Felicity-born on the same day exactly ten years later-has died in a car bomb explosion. She was a homicide detective who had perhaps made one enemy too many over the course of her career.

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