Sacrificial Ground (Frank Clemons #1)
by Cook, Thomas H
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
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Argillite, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
NY: Putnam, 1988. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_buckram spine. Fine/Fine. 5.75"x 8.5" 346 pgs. Red boards w/yellow letters on buckram spine. DJ #12025 designed by One Plus One Studio. Front jacket photo by Whitney Lane. Photo of author by Susan Terner. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), unmarked. Minimal edge & shelf wear to DJ. Secure ship w/track #. The author of Blood Innocents, Tabernacle and other critically hailed mysteries, Cook creates a haunting atmosphere that envelops the reader of his strange new novel. Frank Clemons, a homicide detective in Atlanta, is obsessed by the murder of beautiful Angelique Devereaux. Her body is found in a slum, far from the mansion where Angelique lived with her older sister Karen, an artist. Orphans since childhood, both girls had been oddly uncommunicative although occupying the same house. Questioning the students at the dead girl's school, Clemons learns she had isolated herself from them also. All he knows is that she was lovely and pregnant, which propels him into a near-frantic search for even a whisper about Angelique and her unknown lover. As the officer follows the trail to the victim's last few days, he arrives at a staggering truth that leaves him, and the reader, limp. The writing and characterizations are flawless, particularly as Cook unobtrusively but surely commands empathy for Frank Clemons, a good cop and a real human being. Source: Goodreads.
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- Seller
- Blacks Bookshop (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 15005
- Title
- Sacrificial Ground (Frank Clemons #1)
- Author
- Cook, Thomas H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_buckram spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- BCE/BOMC
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Putnam
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel (1989), Alabama Author Award for Fiction (1990)
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