Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
307 pages ; 23 cm. |
Series Title |
Kies, Thomas.
Geneva Chase mystery ; 1.
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Geneva Chase mystery ; 1
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Summary |
How could such a slaughter happen on Connecticut's moneyed Gold Coast? To privileged couples inside a historic 1898 Queen Anne mansion on the shoreline of Long Island Sound? Where is the protection afforded by the gated community and the security technology in place? For Geneva Chase, battling alcoholism and bad choices, writing this story is the last chance to redeem herself. She's lost every other major news job she's had. Working at her hometown newspaper is the end of the line. There will be nowhere else to go. But ink still flows thick in her veins. Her story on Sheffield's unlikely killing field is the Post's lead, soon picked up by metro papers, and she keeps it, exposing the turbulence beneath the rich and entitleds' secrets, their ability to buy off embarrassments. She's also tracking community connections, watching a hit-and-run case disappear through a large donation, interviewing dangerous suspects, visiting a swingers club, joining cops for a burglary bust, and taking a guided tour to spot history's underwater ghost. All this despite the distractions of the married man she can't quite ditch and the sweet if shaky love affair she starts with an old high school sweetheart. Can she keep her drinking under control and do her job well enough to keep from getting fired, finish the story, not further screw up her life? And not get killed? |
Subject(S) |
Chase, Geneva (Fictitious character)
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Women journalists -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
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Recovering alcoholics -- Fiction.
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Connecticut -- Fiction.
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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ISBN |
9781464208003 |
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146420800X |
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