No Witnesses: A Novel - Hardcover

Ridley Pearson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786203552 ISBN 13: 9780786203550

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 1995

Synopsis

Pearson's newest novel packs Michael Crichton-style high-tech and Thomas Harris-tinged psychological terror into a taut, tension-raising tour de force with the realistic edge of true crime and the verve of a race-against-time whodunit. Seattle police detective Lou Boldt, hero of Undercurrents and The Angel Maker, returns to confront an insane poisoner.

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Review

Ridley Pearson's reputation for smoothly-paced, edgy suspense fiction is unassailable. In this, his eighth novel, a Seattle food company is under siege from an unknown poisoner/extortionist, and innocent consumers are in constant danger. Police sergeant Lou Boldt and psychologist Daphne Matthews -- both too close to the case for comfort -- work furiously to build a profile of the madman, but the police department is cracking under the strain as the lunatic slips away unapprehended from ATM machines one after another. As the manhunt builds to a furious crescendo, Boldt and Matthews are jolted again by the discovery that the man they seek may not be working alone.

About the Author

Born in 1953, Ridley Pearson is the New York Times bestselling author of thirteen prior novels, including The First Victim, The Pied Piper, Beyond Recognition Undercurrents, and Probable Cause. He was the first American to be awarded the Raymond Chandler/Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction at Oxford University. His novel No Witnesses was selected by the ALA as one of the best works of fiction of 1994. Pearson and his wife, Marcelle, and their two daughters divide their time between the Midwest and the Northern Rockies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786203552
• ISBN 13: 9780786203550
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 610