Death by Deception - Hardcover

Wingate, Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802757146 ISBN 13: 9780802757142

Publisher: Walker & Company, 1988

Synopsis

When twelve-year-old Gail sees a woman murdered, her step-father, an FBI agent, is accused of the crime, and the lives of both father and daughter are thrown into mortal danger as the real killer stalks them

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Racial hatreds, corruption and prostitution form the background for this promising debut involving Japanese-American FBI agent Mark Shigata, whose 12-year-old stepdaughter Gail disappears after reporting a murder. Under suspension from the bureau because he is suspected of killing a woman whose body was found behind his garage, Shigata is aided in his hunt for Gail by local cop Al Quinn, who has himself lost his half-Vietnamese son to a hit-and-run driver. Together they find the body of Shigata's estranged wife, Gail's mother. Meanwhile Melissa, a battered wife, is on the run from her husband, Sam, head of a local white supremacist group, both of whom appear to have nebulous ties to Mark and his family. The relationships among the women and a ghost from the agent's past eventually provide the answers. Wingate limns a sensitive portrait of a man who lost his cultural identity during childhood because his father was deeply ashamed of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Shigata is nursed to the beginning of psychological health by Quinn, with his Vietnamese family and his wide tolerance for human diversity and frailty. Readers bothered by Wingate's use of wild coincidence may reflect that events can happen thus in real life.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

Little 12-year-old Gail Shigata runs away from home after apparently seeing her father kill a woman relative in their own backyard. Police indeed suspect her father, a Japanese-American FBI agent with a giant chip on his shoulder, but they allow him to help with their investigation. Subsequent events, handled rather sloppily, center around anti-Asian prejudice and mistaken identity. Breathless, simplistic prose and an indirect approach, coupled with a disappointing, anticlimactic resolution, seriously flaw this work. REK
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Walker & Company
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0802757146
• ISBN 13: 9780802757142
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 195