Prisoner of Memory: A Novel (Eve Diamond) - Hardcover

Hamilton, Denise

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743261941 ISBN 13: 9780743261944

Publisher: Scribner, 2006

Synopsis

When the son of a Russian émigré is found murdered in Los Angeles, reporter Eve Diamond finds herself searching for clues in her own family's past, a situation that is complicated by a young man who claims to be her long-lost cousin, on the run from the Russian mafia. By the author of Last Lullaby. 75,000 first printing.

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About the Author

Denise Hamilton is a writer-journalist whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Cosmopolitan, and The New York Times and is the author of five acclaimed Eve Diamond crime novels, Prisoner of Memory, Savage Garden, Last Lullaby, Sugar Skull, and The Jasmine Trade, all of which have been Los Angeles Times bestsellers. She is also the editor of and a contributor to the short story anthology Los Angeles Noir, winner of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Award for Best Mystery of 2007. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two young children. Visit her at www.denisehamilton.com.

From Publishers Weekly

Eve Diamond, having investigated Southern California's Asian and Latino communities, tackles the Russians in Hamilton's entertaining, well-researched fifth thriller to feature the ambitious L.A. Times reporter (after 2005's Savage Gardens). Eve is following reports of a mountain lion in Griffith Park when she discovers the bullet-ridden body of Dennis Lukin, the teenage son of recent Russian émigrés. That night, Eve is visited by Mischa Tsipin, an illegal Russian immigrant running from gangsters to whom he owes money and claiming to be a cousin of Eve's (her mother was Russian). At considerable personal risk, the indefatigable Eve sorts through false identities and changing alliances, confronting old and new Russian émigrés and their mafia as well as her own family history. Lending support are FBI agent Thomas Clavendish, an intractable cold warrior, and her reporter colleague, Josh Brandywine. As usual, Hamilton richly evokes seething, polyglot L.A., but the reader's suspension of disbelief may sag by the final shootout under the weight of too many coincidences and subplots. (Apr.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0743261941
• ISBN 13: 9780743261944
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384