Slipping into Darkness: A Novel - Hardcover

Blauner, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316098663 ISBN 13: 9780316098663

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 2006

Synopsis

In the aftermath of murder convict Julian Vega's release on a technicality, detective Francis X. Loughlin is forced to enlist the man's assistance in a case involving baffling DNA evidence and tactics similar to Vega's.

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About the Author:

Peter Blauner is the author of three other novels, including Slow Motion Riot, which won the 1992 Edgar Allen Poe Award for best first novel of the year, and The Intruder, a New York Times and international bestseller. He lives in New York with his wife, author Peg Tyre, and their two children.

From Publishers Weekly:

After sifting through the secrets of suburban life in The Last Good Day, Blauner returns with a serpentine thriller about a decades-old murder case is reopened when the killer is released from prison. Twenty years earlier, Homicide Det. Francis X. Loughlin put the grisly murder of young doctor Allison Wallis to rest with the confession of teenage Julian Vega, but now Vega has been released on a legal technicality. Vega wanders the streets of Manhattan searching for signs of his former life, and though his old and new contacts won't give him benefit of the doubt, tough litigator Debbie Aaron believes in his innocence. When the body of a female doctor is found stabbed to death in the same manner as the original case, the investigation becomes increasingly complex. DNA evidence not only confirms Vega's innocence in the current death but calls into question the nature of the original murder. Already challenged by this tough case, Loughlin struggles with a debilitating eye disease that's robbing him of his sight. Though the low-key conclusion unfurls with little fanfare, Blauner excels with the sharp characterization and surefooted plotting that fans have come to expect. (Jan.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0316098663
• ISBN 13: 9780316098663
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400