Fast Friends - Softcover

Pugh, Dianne G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671519131 ISBN 13: 9780671519131

Publisher: Pocket, 1998

Synopsis

The unsinkable Iris Thorne, a Los Angeles investment counselor, is nevertheless rocked by the suicide of the mother of her childhood friend, forcing her to dredge up an explosive memory that may explain an almost-perfect murder. Original.

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About the Author

Dianne Emley is a Los Angeles Times bestselling author and has received critical acclaim for her books which include the Detective Nan Vining thrillers: The First Cut, Cut to the Quick, The Deepest Cut, and Love Kills and the Iris Thorne mysteries: Cold Call, Slow Squeeze, Fast Friends, Foolproof and Pushover. Her books have been translated into six languages. A Los Angeles native, she lives in California with her husband.

From Kirkus Reviews

Back in the days of the great earthquake of 1971, more than Los Angeles was falling apart. After somebody killed crusty landowner Gabriel Gaytan with hammer and pickax, Gabe's cousin Humberto de la Garza, the police suspect, died in police custody, leaving Gabe's weak-minded daughter Dolly, already under the thumb of her slumlord husband Bill DeLacey, to inherit his ranch. Now the earth is trembling again, and this time the DeLacey family fortunes are too. Addled Dolly is dead, an alleged suicide, right after finding a will in Bill's favor she doesn't remember writing, and making a desperate phone call to Iris Thorne, the daughter of onetime DeLacey handyman Les Thorne, for help. So Iris, who ought to be looking at great days ahead--a promised promotion in her financial counseling firm, a couple of interesting new men in her life--ends up peering down the well of her own past, trying to get in touch with Bill's wayward daughter Paula in time for the funeral and wondering which of the two candidates for the city council--Bill's son Thomas, one of those interesting new men, or incumbent Gil Alvarez, the cop turned lawyer who covered up Humberto's fatal beating--has more to hide. In fact, Pugh's real achievement here is making every single person Iris is attached to look suspicious and guilty. Slower, deeper, and altogether richer than Iris's breezy first two adventures (Slow Squeeze, 1994, etc.). Who says you can't go home again? -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0671519131
• ISBN 13: 9780671519131
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 320