An intriguing new suspense novel from Carol Brennan the author of two previous novels, Headhunt (1991) and Full Commission (1993), featuring PR sleuth Liz Wareham. Now, Brennan presents In The Dark, a gripping suspense novel which features a daring new heroine, actress Emily Silver. Orphaned at the age of nine when her parents were slain in New York by a Mel Torme-voiced murderer, Emily has since built a successful career on the West Coast. But then she hears the killer's distinctive androgynous voice in a darkened movie house and is jolted into a search for the truth about the 20-year-old deaths.
When her lover, Mike Florio, is killed soon after agreeing to help her, Emily embarks on a fast-paced New York/Key West/L. A. search, aided by Mike's New York friend, Dev Hannagan, who reads Stendahl in French, spouts Latin and endures his writer's block by detecting. Quickly becoming a love interest, Dev is only one in a rich cast that includes Emily's dowager grandmother, an aging gay actor, a mysterious police sergeant and a nun. Brennan's tight, intricate plot gradually elucidates the toll her "narcissistic bisexual satyr" of a father exacted from those around him.
In The Dark is to woman-in-jeopardy thrillers as "The Silence of the Lambs" is to serial killer novels, and its my favorite mystery of the year so far. - Cleveland Plain Dealer
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