Always - Softcover

Griffith, Nicola

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594482942 ISBN 13: 9781594482946

Publisher: Riverhead Books, 2008

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About this title

About the Author:

Nicola Griffith is the author of Always, Stay, The Blue Place, Slow River, Ammonite, the multi-media memoir And Now We Are Going to Have a Party, and the forthcoming Hild. Her work has won the Nebula Award, the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, and sixLambda Awards. She is a native of England, currently living in Seattle.

From Booklist:

*Starred Review* Yowza! Griffith's six-foot-tall, cropped-haired heroine Aud Torvingen is back, flying to Washington since she has inherited her father's holdings and must deal with a Seattle real-estate manager who is robbing her blind. She also needs to see her wealthy, diplomat mother and meet her new stepfather. Interspersed are flashbacks of the women's self-defense class she'd taught back home in Atlanta--with unforeseen and deadly results. Griffith deftly parallels the two narrative threads that comment on and complement each other, creating a synergy of action and adrenaline for one of crime fiction's toughest yet most sensual lesbian detectives. Griffith's writing is smart and crisply detailed as she smoothly orchestrates a plot that delivers Aud to the soundstage for an independent film. There, production problems raise her suspicions of sabotage, confirmed when the coffee urn is spiked with a drug cocktail of Ecstacy, magic mushrooms, oxycodone, angel dust, and speed, nearly killing Aud and various crew members. Fist-slamming physicality is beautifully balanced with raised emotional stakes as Griffith dares to take her lethally forceful heroine to a new level. Whitney Scott
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About this edition

• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1594482942
• ISBN 13: 9781594482946
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528