- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Minotaur Books; First Edition edition (Dec 10 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312372493
- ISBN-13: 978-0312372491
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.7 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,149,476 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
George's solid third Pittsburgh thriller (after 2004's Fallen) introduces rookie detective Colleen Greer to the homicide squad. Cmdr. Richard Christie is unsure of inexperienced, overeager Greer, but they hit the ground running after a woman is brutally murdered. Greer recognizes the victim as Laura McCall, the wife of David Hoffman, who ran a counseling center where Greer had been employed. McCall was separated from Hoffman and dating another man, making Hoffman the detectives' prime suspect. When Hoffman reaches out to Greer, her cop instincts take precedence over their past friendship, but she still isn't sure of his guilt. When a second body turns up, again with ties to Hoffman's clinic, Greer tries to tap into her intuition and unexpectedly finds herself attracted to her very married boss. George leaves enough balls in the air that fans will eagerly await Christie and Greer's next case. (Dec.)
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In the humid dog days of a Pittsburgh summer weekend, Richard Christie, Head of Homicide, faces not one, but two mysterious murders. The victims---a polite woman and an angelic child---do not seem to be connected in any obvious way. Christie is short-handed, the clues don’t stack up, and he’s got a rookie detective, Colleen Greer, to look out for. These are his problems.
Colleen has problems, too. Her boyfriend is trying to break up with her, she’s got a serious crush on her mentor, Christie, and it turns out she knew both victims slightly. Early in the investigation, she gets an alarming idea about the perpetrator’s identity, but the man she suspects has no obvious connection to the victims. She has to move carefully with nothing but a gut feeling to go on---all the while disturbed by a series of memories of her own childhood.
Kathleen George’s novels have been praised for their subtle rendering of character and relationships---whether those relationships are among detectives or in the families of criminals. Boldly and elegantly written, Afterimage is a startling thriller.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Good police procedural mystery, April 8 2008
By Sandy Kay - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Afterimage (Hardcover)
I hate when I start reading a new book and realize it is part of a series, and not the beginning. But in this case, though I may have missed some of the interpersonal undercurrents between the characters, I thought the book read quite well on its own without having read the earlier books.
This is a different kind of police mystery than I have read before. It is much more about the police legwork in solving a pair of crimes that appear to be linked. Instead of the characters racing for their lives or involved in tense dramatic situations, they do more of what I assume police detectives do in real life: they look at evidence and talk to people and plan their investigations even when one of them has a gut feeling about who the guilty party may be.
Though not the same kind of page turner as a pure thriller-type novel, this book kept my interest on a more intellectual basis. In addition, there was a lot of emotional content as well. There was some jockeying for position among the various offers, the undercurrent of the rookie officer's crush on her married boss along with her need to impress him and be complimented and the rookie's interactions with a suspect who was her former boss.
I enjoyed the book enough that I plan to go back and read the earlier ones in the series.
1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent Christie Pittsburgh police procedural, Dec 14 2007
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Afterimage (Hardcover)
In Pittsburgh homicide squad Commander Richard Christie has some doubts with the new guy make that gal assigned to his unit. He likes rookie detective Colleen Greer's enthusiasm, but also fears her excess zeal could prove dangerous to her and the team. Still he has no choice but to toss her into the ocean while a hurricane hits.
Richard has two homicides to investigate. The first victim is Laura McCall, who Greer knows from working for her separated husband David Hoffman at a counseling clinic. The second is a child who Greer knows once again from her time at the clinic. Like her married boss, who she is attracted to; Greer wonders if Hoffman killed his wife and the child, but has some doubts as a niggling suspicion in her gut points to someone else she knew in her clinic days.
The third Christie Pittsburgh police procedural (see TAKEN and FALLEN) is a strong tale due to the simmering relationship between the commander and the rookie. Although this is Greer's first tale, her key appearance adds tension to the veteran homicide detective and will remind series fans more so of TAKEN in which Richard's wife Marina Benedict requested a separation. The mystery is well done especially as David asks his former employee for favors, which make him appear even guiltier to her, but it is the newbie who steals the show on a personal front with her hero worship attraction and her on the job investigative training.
Harriet Klausner
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