The Mortician's Daughter - Hardcover

Bloom, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892967862 ISBN 13: 9780892967865

Publisher: Mysterious Press, 2006

Synopsis

A suspended New York City policewoman returns home to a small New England mill town to investigate the murder of her best friend's son

About this title

About the Author:

ELIZABETH BLOOM is a journalist who has written articles for the Ithaca Journal. A former associate editor at Cornell magazine, she lives in New York City.

From Booklist:

Ginny Lavoie may be depressed over her suspension from the New York Police Department, but her woes pale in comparison to those of her childhood friend, Sonya, whose 19-year-old adopted son, Danny, was savagely murdered in their hometown of North Adams, Massachusetts. (Sonya took over the care of Danny the moment her deadbeat sister left the 15-month-old at her doorstep.) Ginny returns to the onetime mill town to investigate and is soon exchanging barbs with the bombastic local police chief and kisses with her old high-school sweetheart, Jimmy. Danny's troubles, it seems, coincided with his search for his birth mother, but who in the town didn't want them to reconnect? No one, it seems, is above suspicion, from a homeless Vietnam vet to a cool Manhattanite known for dealing crystal meth. More deaths--and a grim discovery at a popular town landmark--lead determined Ginny to a series of startling truths. Bloom (See Isabelle Run, 2005) delivers suspense and a colorful, if somewhat cliched, portrait of life in a small New England town. Allison Block
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About this edition

• Publisher: Mysterious Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0892967862
• ISBN 13: 9780892967865
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320