Beyond Ice, Beyond Death - Hardcover

McCall, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786860227 ISBN 13: 9780786860227

Publisher: Hyperion, 1995

Synopsis

Nora Callum returns in a sequel to A Wide and Capable Revenge to investigate the murder of a man involved in a joint U.S./Russian space probe project and an ill-fated affair with a Russian lover.

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas McCall was raised in Chicago and practices medicine in Wisconsin. A Wide And Capable Revenge was the debut novel in the Nora Callum series. His short fiction has appeared in The Missouir Review.

From Publishers Weekly:

As he did in A Wide and Capable Revenge, McCall gives a Russian twist to the case pursued by Chicago homicide detective Nora Callum in her second adventure. Nora is able to identify the body of a gunshot victim with the help of Valery Kuzov, a visiting professor who once worked on a failed Russian-U.S. space probe. Dead is Edward Boyes, an American who worked on the same project. A week before he was killed, Boyes publicly denounced the Russians for imprisoning his lover, flight controller Irina Varonyev, for her role in the loss of a spaceship in that project. The police close the case when a street punk confesses to the murder, but Nora is convinced of the space-probe link: two of Boyes's colleagues from NASA are, conveniently, in the area. Her hunt is complicated when the murder of a friend's beau prompts her to play one-woman posse-gunning down the unarmed perp lands her in a thicket of trouble. McCall, an orthopedic surgeon, depicts Nora, a single mother who lost a leg in a drug bust and walks with a prosthesis, as a disturbing blend of hostility and sentimentality. She is stalwart and bright but difficult to like.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Hyperion
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0786860227
• ISBN 13: 9780786860227
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304