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Twenty-six years after the brutal rape of a Boston nurse, the DNA of James Murray, a recently murdered man, proves he was the rapist, leading Owen Keane, his college classmate, to try to clear Murray's name and solve his murder. Reprint.
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The seventh in a series of moody, thoughtful and doggedly low-key mysteries finds amateur crime solver Owen Keene dealing with a puzzle from his past. The intellectually astute, if career-impaired, Keene was a college kid in Boston at the end of the 1960s. Now it's 1995, and his old college chum James Courtney Murray is an apparent murder victim. Murray was the prime suspect in the 1969 rape of Francine Knaff, a local nurse. Recent DNA tests point to Murray's guiltAbut Keene was also a suspect in the rape, as was fellow collegian Harry Ohlman. Continual flashbacks detail Keene's college romance with Mary Fitzgerald, the girl Ohlman eventually won, rather than developing Murray's character, which remains enigmatic to the end. Keene has a lot of guilt to work through in this novel, and the narrative takes its sweet time getting to a resolution. Throughout, Faherty stresses characterization over mayhem. The identity of Murray's killer isn't a major revelation, but Faherty packs a lot of supplemental detail into the explanation of the crimeAjust the kind of emotional detritus that Owen Keene has made a career (of sorts) out of wallowing in. (July)
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Orion Rising ($22.95; Jul. 30; 256 pp.; 0-312-20351-9): Owen Keane, who left the seminary for the mean streets (The Ordained, 1997, etc.), is pulled into the murder of his classmate James Murray, and even deeper into the past he shares with Murray: the dead man's rape and beating of Boston nurse Francine Knaff 26 years ago, now finally confirmed by posthumous DNA evidence that convinces everybody but Owen. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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