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Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-101549143301
ISBN-139781549143304
eBay Product ID (ePID)23038620842
Product Key Features
Book TitleBurn
Publication Year2020
TopicThrillers / Crime, Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorKathleen Kent
Book SeriesThe Detective Betty Ser.
FormatCompact Disc
Dimensions
Item Length5.7 In.
Item Width5.2 In.
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsTerrific...Kent's own ability to avoid predictable outcomes and keep the reader on edge bodes well for future installments in this series., Kent continues to reinvent and subvert traditional noir expectations with the larger-than-life, damaged, courageous Betty. . . . Action-driven mystery anchored by dynamic, deep characters., Terrific... Kent's own ability to avoid predictable outcomes and keep the reader on edge bodes well for future installments in this series., Kent's Dallas setting is so meticulously drawnthat one can practically smell the streets, the sour odor of the street people.All of her characters are memorable, and not a single one, even the minorcharacters, is less than three dimensional., [A] deeply satisfying follow-up to last year's Edgar-nominated The Dime ...Raymond Chandler praised Dashiell Hammett for taking crime fiction out of the drawing rooms and into the streets. With Betty Rhyzyk, Kathleen Kent brings those mean streets to life as excitingly as anybody has in years., Deeply satisfying . . . [Betty is] an obsessive, borderline unstable, fascinating, Brooklyn-born seeker of truth. . . . With Betty Rhyzyk, Kathleen Kent brings those mean streets to life as excitingly as anybody has in years., Kent continues to reinvent and subvert traditional noir expectations with the larger-than-life, damaged, courageous Betty...Action-driven mystery anchored by dynamic, deep characters., Harsh, violent reality is the daily fare for Dallas police detective Betty Rhyzyk, the narrator of Kathleen Kent's satisfying The Burn ., A suspensefulmystery right up until the end --- and an effective exploration of trauma andits ongoing repercussions, not only for survivors but also for those who careabout, and for, them., Gripping...Briskly paced, The Burn barely allows the reader to take a breath as believable twists careen throughout., Gripping . . . Briskly paced, The Burn barely allows the reader to take a breath as believable twists careen throughout.
Series Volume Number2
Dewey Decimal813/.6
Edition DescriptionUnabridged edition
SynopsisThere's not much that can make Detective Betty Rhyzyk flinch. But the wounds from her run-in with the apocalyptic cult The Family are still fresh, and she's having trouble readjusting to life as it once was. She's back at work as a narcotics detective, but something isn't right--at work, where someone has been assassinating confidential informants, or at home, where she struggles to connect with her loving wife, Jackie. To make matters worse, Betty's partner seems to be increasingly dependent on the prescription painkillers he was prescribed for the injuries he sustained rescuing her. Forced into therapy, a desk assignment, and domestic bliss, Betty's at the point of breaking when she decides to go rogue, investigating her own department and chasing down phantom sightings of the cult leader who took her hostage. The chase will lead her to the dark heart of a drug cartel terrorizing Dallas, and straight to the crooked cops who plan to profit from it all. There's never a dull moment in Dallas, especially now that Det. Betty's back., In this "deeply satisfying" thriller, Detective Betty Rhyzyk is up against a string of mysterious assassinations, an increasingly reckless partner, and her worst fear -- desk duty -- when she decides to go rogue . . . heading straight into the dark underworld of Dallas's most dangerous drug cartel ( The Washington Post ). 2021 Edgar Award Nominee - G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award Not much can make Detective Betty Rhyzyk flinch. But when forced into therapy, a desk assignment, and domestic bliss following a terrifying run-in with an apocalyptic cult, she's having trouble readjusting to life as it once was. At home, she struggles to connect with her loving wife, Jackie. At work, someone has been assassinating confidential informants. To make matters worse, Betty's partner seems to be increasingly dependent on the painkillers he was prescribed for injuries he sustained narrowly rescuing her.Betty's at the point of breaking when she decides to go rogue, on a chase that will lead her to the dark heart of a drug cartel terrorizing Dallas, and straight to the crooked cops who plan to profit from it all. "A labyrinth of a police procedural punctuated by non-stop action . . . Gripping." -- Associated Press
