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Zusatztext "An excellent series." -- Chicago Tribune Informationen zum Autor Jan Burke is the author of a dozen novels and a collection of short stories. She is the founder of the Crime Lab Project and is a member of the board of the California Forensic Science Institute. She lives in Southern California with her husband and two dogs. Learn more about her at JanBurke.com. Klappentext When O'Connor was a cub reporter! his boss claimed to have witnessed a mysterious burial. Long known for tipping the bottle! no one took him seriously except for O'Connor. But try as O'Connor did! he could not find evidence that his mentor's story was true. Twenty years later! our heroine Irene Kelly's ambitions have caused her working relationship with O'Connor to become strained. But when a vicious kidnapper directs Kelly to a buried car near a new development in Las Piernas! the two must work together closely to save the kidnap victim. Both feel the police - and they themselves - missed something crucial in the investigation. Zusammenfassung Edgar® Award winner Jan Burke continues her USA Today bestselling Irene Kelly series with a suspense-laced novel of buried secrets! old friends! and new dangers -- in "a brilliant exhibition of what the crime genre can offer" ( The Baltimore Sun ). Sweeping across decades! Burke masterfully unearths a cold case that is far from closed while introducing an intrepid novice reporter! Irene Kelly! learning the ropes from her mentor! Conn O'Connor. From the late fifties! when a bloodstained car is buried on a farm and a wealthy family disappears at sea . . . to the seventies! when Irene makes shocking connections and brashly tracks a killer from the past . . . to today! when new threats and deadly surprises are closing in on the veteran journalist and her husband! Frank Harriman! Bloodlines follows a fascinating labyrinth of lives! loves! sins! and secrets -- with the irrepressible Irene Kelly at its core. ...
