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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
Published: Dec 1999
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $9.99
Pages: 382
This most accomplished mystery author has stepped sideways, adding to her mastery of the thriller genre a whole new mode: zany comedy....Make no mistake, SOUTHERN CROSS is every bit as good a read as its darker predecessors in the Cornwell canon....[The] story races along with true comic zest, and in its interlacing of simultaneous plot threads it gives the maestros of farcical plotting a run for their money.
Jamie Swift's job running the local newspaper in Beaumont, South Carolina, is complicated by the arrival of her silent partner, mysterious and sexy...
When Jack Mullen's brother, a valet parker working in the Hamptons, is found murdered on an exclusive beach, Jack is determined to bring the killers...
Virginia's chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta is getting ready for a romantic holiday with her retired-FBI-profiler boyfriend, Benton Wesley,...
Stephanie Plum's got rent to pay, people shooting at her, and psychos wanting her dead every day of the week (much to the dismay of her mother, her...
When her younger brother, Danny, commits suicide, Sayre Lynch breaks her vow never to return to her Louisiana hometown, and gets drawn back into her...
Skilled at running large households efficiently, butler Sarah Stevens also serves as a trained bodyguard for her elderly employer, but when she...