Invisible Boy - Hardcover

Read, Cornelia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410427560 ISBN 13: 9781410427564

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2010

Synopsis

A provocative work based on a true story finds outspoken socialite Madeline Dare prompted by the discovery of a 3-year-old's body to examine her own troubled history in the public class and racial warfare of 1990s New York City society. By the author of The Crazy School. (General fiction).

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About the Author

Cornelia Read grew up in New York, California, and Hawaii. She is a reformed debutante who currently lives in Berkeley. To learn more about the author, you can visit her website at www.corneliaread.com, and www.nakedauthors.com, her group blog with authors Jim Born, Paul Levine, Patty Smiley, and Jacqueline Winspear.

From Booklist

Ex-debutante Madeline Dare is a fallen WASP with a stinging wit. The one-time newspaper reporter seems to find murder and mayhem wherever she goes. In this lively third offering (after The Crazy School, 2008), the mordant Dare discovers, in a New York cemetery housing her ancestors, the remains of what was clearly an abused boy. What cruel soul could have beaten three-year-old Teddy Underhill to death? High on the suspect list are the boy’s deadbeat mother, Angela, and her equally unsavory boyfriend, Albert, who claims the child wandered off while he was taking a nap. Madeline finds herself immersed in the case, while her husband, Dean, spends his days working for Christoph, a neo-Nazi businessman. (Christoph’s wife, Astrid, gives Madeline a copy of Mein Kampf as a gift.) Along the way, Madeline gets chummy with a homicide cop named Skwarecki, who shares her endearingly cynical outlook on life. As in previous entries, Shamus Award–winner Read offers a steady dose of suspense and plenty of clever commentary on the caprices of the upper crust. --Allison Block

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1410427560
• ISBN 13: 9781410427564
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 700