The Stranger You Seek - A Novel

Zusatztext “The best fictional female P.I. since Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone. And with its shocking triple-twist climax! this is the best private eye debut since Dennis Lehane’s A Drink Before the War .” — The Plain Dealer   “A creepy! suspenseful! breathtaking ride . . . [Keye] Street is a unique and worthy addition to the rich tradition of damaged and tough private detectives.” —Associated Press   “[Amanda Kyle Williams] keeps the suspense taut and the humor snarky! with an ending that will have you slapping your foreheard over clues you missed.” — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution   “An explosive! unpredictable! and psychologically complex thriller.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) Informationen zum Autor Amanda Kyle Williams  was the author of the Keye Street thriller series, including  The Stranger You Seek,  which was nominated for both a Townsend Award for Fiction and a Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America,  The Stranger in the Room,  and  Don’t Talk to Strangers . She died in 2018. Klappentext "[Amanda Kyle Williams] keeps the suspense taut and the humor snarky! with an ending that will have you slapping your foreheard over clues you missed."-The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionIn the sweltering heat of an Atlanta summer! a killer is pushing the city to its breaking point! preying on the unsuspecting! writing taunting letters to the media! promising more death. Desperate to stop the Wishbone Killer! A.P.D. lieutenant Aaron Rauser turns to the one person he knows can penetrate a deranged mind: Keye Street! an ex-FBI profiler and former addict who now picks up jobs where she can get them. But the last thing Keye wants is to be pulled into the firestorm of Atlanta's worst nightmare. And then it suddenly becomes clear that the hunter has become the hunted-and the stranger she seeks is far closer than she ever dared imagine.Praise for The Stranger You Seek"The best fictional female P.I. since Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone. And with its shocking triple-twist climax! this is the best private eye debut since Dennis Lehane's A Drink Before the War."-The Plain Dealer "A creepy! suspenseful! breathtaking ride . . . [Keye] Street is a unique and worthy addition to the rich tradition of damaged and tough private detectives."-Associated Press "An explosive! unpredictable! and psychologically complex thriller."-Publishers Weekly (starred review) Leseprobe 1 My name is Keye Street. First name from my Asian grandfather; my adoptive parents awarded me the second. By trade I am a detective, private, that is, a process server and bail recovery agent. In life, I am a dry alcoholic, a passionate believer in Krystal cheeseburgers and Krispy Kreme doughnuts, and a former behavioral analyst for the FBI. How I ended up here in the South, where I have the distinction of looking like what they still call a damn foreigner in most parts of Georgia and sounding like a hick everywhere else in the world, is a mystery Emily and Howard Street have never fully unraveled for me. I know they had wanted a child so badly they adopted a scrawny Chinese American with questionable genes from an orphanage. My grandparents and guardians had been murdered and my biological parents consisted of two drug addicts and one exotic dancer. I have no memory of them. They took flight shortly after my birth. I can only manage a word or two in Chinese, but my mother, Emily Street, who is as proficient in innuendo as anyone I've ever known, taught me a lot about the subtle and passive-aggressive language of southern women. They had tried for a cute little white kid, but something in my father's past, something they have for my entire life flat-out refused to share with me, got them rejected. It didn't take me long to understand that southerners are deeply secretive. I embraced th...

Product details

• Authors: Amanda Kyle Williams
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.05.2012
• EAN: 9780553593808
• ISBN: 978-0-553-59380-8
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 104 mm x 173 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Keye Street; Keye Street
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense