From Publishers Weekly
Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter, columnist for the Miami Herald and author of The Corpse Had a Familiar Face , Buchanan displays deft story tell ing skill in this hard-hitting police procedural, her first novel. Spanning a month of Miami days and nights, the plot centers around homicide sergeant Rick Barrish, a poised and handsome young cop who has recently ended a romance with fellow officer Mary Ellen Dustin and taken up with young Laurel Trevelyn. After describing a series of seemingly unrelated crimes that occur on the first night of the full moon, Buchanan clues readers into Laurel's multiple personality disorder, a secret that will ultimately tie together the assorted subplots here. Murders calculated and unprovoked; drug busts; robberies; the tensions between cops and criminals, rich and poor; and matters of love and hate all play out in Miami's mean, middle-class or manicured neighborhoods. As Laurel's various selves wage an accelerating war for control, wreaking havoc and tragedy for Rick, Mary Ellen and their other partner, Detective Jim Ransom, Buchanan conjures up a city both ordinary and exotic, and as vivid and colorful as her characters.
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From Library Journal
Pulitzer Prize-winning Miami journalist Buchanan enters police procedural ranks with a stunning tour de force staged in Miami and its environs. Sympathetic detective Rick Barrish and partners grapple with madness and violence near Rick's house: a murder next door and a break-in nearby. Rick's beautiful, insecure (and mentally unstable) live-in girlfriend, meanwhile, experiences inexplicable losses of time. As the detectives look for evidence, more connected crimes occur, jealousy erupts, and the girlfriend's multiple personalities strengthen. The narrative swerves effectively from police to "girlfriend" personae and back, building tension, heat, and inhumanity with frightening resolve. Gripping drama for all collections.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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edition.
