Different Women Dancing - Hardcover

Gash, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670873691 ISBN 13: 9780670873692

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1997

Synopsis

Trying to find the truth behind a businessman's suspicious death, Dr. Clare Burtonall enlists the help of a gigolo, a witness to the crime, and uncovers a conspiracy in a mystery by the author of the popular Lovejoy series. 30,000 first printing.

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From Kirkus Reviews:

That rascal Lovejoy never could resist the ladies, so it's only natural that when Gash put the antiquer/swindler/raconteur aside after 19 adventures (The Possessions of a Lady, 1996, etc.), he'd turn to an even more devout worshipper of female charm. In the case of his new hero, an illicit escort calling himself Bonn, an ex-seminarian capable of transforming himself into every woman's fantasy, devotion is essential to professional success. But Dr. Clare Burtonall, the physician who wants to pay for Bonn's time, isn't looking for fantasy; she recognizes Bonn as a witness to a traffic fatality from which the victim's briefcase disappeared--a briefcase that a courier duly delivered that night to her husband Clifford. Was insurance agent Leonard Mostern's death nothing more than an unfortunate accident? What does Clifford have to do with it? What will Clare make of the knowledge that the efficient Bonn, who ``talk[s] like a fairground guess-your-weight machine,'' is rapidly amassing for her? And is it really true that her relationship with this suave gigolo has no room for fantasy after all? A smooth, sexy suspenser fortified by Gash's trademark bits of frantically dispensed inside information about prostitution, cardiology, and car bombs. The alternation between Clare's and Bonn's points of view produces an effervescent effect of Lovejoy and sparkling water. The promised series is cause for rejoicing. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Booklist:

Here's something very curious from the creator of the Lovejoy novels. Gash introduces a new series character, cardiologist Dr. Clare Burtonall, but the novel is practically stolen from her by Bonn, the soft-spoken and mysterious male prostitute who helps Clare investigate a suspicious road accident. Lovejoy fans prepare for a shock: if this first novel is any indication, Gash's new series will be a lot rougher than his stories about the popular antique dealer. The novel is written in the language of the underworld, where people are coarse, sex is a commodity, and murder is sometimes the logical solution to a tricky problem. Perhaps in the series' next installment, Clare will emerge as a stronger heroine, but here the central character (by accident or design) is the charismatic Bonn--a truly remarkable creation who seems to be many things but is probably none of them. Different Women Dancing seems as though it might not be quite what Gash intended it to be. But it is, nevertheless, a compelling novel. David Pitt

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0670873691
• ISBN 13: 9780670873692
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320