What Burns Within - Softcover

Ruttan, Sandra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0843960744 ISBN 13: 9780843960747

Publisher: Leisure Books, 2008

Synopsis

Three cops are forced to team up once again when the brutal case that almost destroyed them one year ago is reopened after a shocking connection to the current cases they are each working on is revealed. Original.

About this title

About the Author

Born June 2, 1971 in Etobicoke, I grew up in Muskoka, Ontario. As a child I devoured books, including Jack London's The Call of the Wild, CS Lewis's Narnia Chronicles, and had my first newspaper column at the age of 13.

After high school I spent time living overseas and witnessed the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Over the years I've traveled to over 25 countries on four continents.

I studied journalism at Loyalist College, took communication studies from Simon Fraser University and worked in special education. I also completed a creative writing diploma, which was when I began my first completed manuscript.

My love affair with crime fiction began when I read Ian Rankin's THE FALLS. I devoured the Rebus books, and police procedurals, and ultimately decided to write them. When I'm not working on a manuscript, I'm busy editing Spinetingler Magazine My short stories have appeared in Out of the Gutter, Crimespree Magazine, Pulp Pusher, The Cynic, and Demolition.

And, in the small bits of time between writing and editing, I indulge my love of hiking and photography. I currently live in western Canada with two dogs and too many cats.

From the Back Cover

"A totally mesmerizing narrative and a plot that burns off the page." --Ken Bruen, Author of Ammunition

"Never a dull moment. It's a hard book to put down." --Tony Hillerman on Suspicious Circumstances

One year ago, a brutal case almost destroyed three cops. Since then they've lost touch with one another, avoiding painful memories, content to go their own ways. Now Nolan is after a serial rapist. Hart is working on a string of arsons. And Tain has been assigned a series of child abductions, a case all too similar to that one. But when the body of one of the abduction victims is found at the site of one of the arsons, it starts to look like maybe these cases are connected after all....

"What Burns Within is a stunning book." --Brian Lindenmuth, Mystery BookSpot

"Ruttan is talented in the way that a natural musician is talented, making all the notes seem effortless." --Crimespree Magazine

Reviews

Three Vancouver constables—son-of-a-sergeant Craig Nolan, bombshell in the boys' club Ashlyn Hart, and stolidly antisocial cop Tain—are drawn together as the rapes, arsons and child abductions they're working on respectively converge. The three, who have a beef over a prior case gone bad, must get over their personal differences and chase scant leads before another raped woman, burned building or missing girl turns up. Ruttan manages to keep the multiple leads and seconds on the same page admirably: she doesn't drop too many clues in their laps or allow the tension to flag. The child abduction and sex crime aspects of the story are handled without exploitation or kid gloves; the straight proceduralism from Ruttan (Suspicious Circumstances) serves the story well through the rewarding climax. (May)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Leisure Books
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0843960744
• ISBN 13: 9780843960747
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 355