Never Fear

by Scott Frost

Overview

Detective Alex Delillo is in a state of shock. Turns out the unidentified body the cops found is that of her half-brother—one she never knew she had—and he’s the spitting image of her father. The father who walked out on his family…the same man suspected of killing three women seventeen years ago. As Alex begins to unravel her brother’s murder, her childhood comes into clearer focus. Soon she notices someone in the shadows, tracking her every move—and leaving a body count.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440633775
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/27/2008
Series:	An Alex Delillo Novel
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	483 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Scott Frost is a screenwriter whose credits include the television classics Twin Peaks and Life Goes On.

Shelly Frasier has recorded over fifty audiobooks. She can be heard narrating such classics as Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"You don't usually expect a passionate performance in a murder mystery, but, thanks to Shelly Frasier, you get one here." —-AudioFile

Editorial Reviews

Frost makes good on the promise of Run the Risk (2005) as L.A. police detective Alex Delillo returns in a case as intricate as a diagrammed compound-complex sentence. The novelist and TV writer (X-Files, Twin Peaks) gets going posthaste with revelations about Alex Delillo's life. A caller from the morgue informs Delillo that her brother has been shot-quite a shock, especially considering she didn't know she had a brother. Delillo's brother died just after trying to send her a fax, which she receives with one page missing. Tracking the clerk who sent the fax, Delillo arrives at his store to find an LAPD detective shot dead. The detective, Delillo learns, had a file on her father that reveals he had been a suspect in a serial-murder case 20 years ago and that the victims' bodies had been disposed of in the same place the body of Delillo's brother turned up. Their father, a featured player in movies who never made the top tier, disappeared soon after divorcing their mother. Is he still alive? As L.A. fires fanned by Santa Ana winds threaten her home (a motif that's a bit . . . overheated), Delillo teams with detective Dylan Harrison to uncover what links the events, and what she doesn't know, or remember, about her father. Attempting to interview the frightened clerk who sent her brother's fax, Delillo is thwarted when LAPD cops shoot him down. The cops insist he was about to pull a gun, but Delillo and Harrison sense the murders and others that follow are part of a cover-up related to the serial killings. They tie things up just about so, allowing for a twist too many at the end and just one loose thread. Tight, tricky and wickedly complicated, with sharp, swiftly drawn characters.

Kirkus Reviews

Crisp, prickly prose…Frost delivers a superlative scorcher with a cast of memorably eccentric characters…and a sinuous plot that crackles and pops.”

Booklist (starred review)

You don't usually expect a passionate performance in a murder mystery, but, thanks to Shelly Frasier, you get one here.

AudioFile

"You don't usually expect a passionate performance in a murder mystery, but, thanks to Shelly Frasier, you get one here." ---AudioFile

From the Publisher

You don’t usually expect a passionate performance in a murder mystery, but, thanks to Shelly Frasier, you get one here. Back in this thriller is Homicide Detective Alex Delillo, who is notified that a half-brother she never knew about has been killed. Alex begins a search for her father, who abandoned her, which in turn leads her to a suspect in the killing of three women seventeen years earlier. The ingenious plot turns again and again. Frasier has a clear, logical sounding voice and a pleasant rhythm. Her performance makes Frost’s second outing a pleasure, and, don’t worry, based on the quality of this offering, there will most likely be a third. A.L.H. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine

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