Used to Kill - Softcover

O'Donnell, Lillian

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ISBN 10: 0449222497 ISBN 13: 9780449222492

Publisher: Fawcett, 1994

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Emma Trent's husbands have a habit of dying. But New York City P.I. Gwenn Ramadge refuses to believe her lovely client killed her latest spouse -- and sets out to prove it despite mounting evidence to the contrary. There are a few tantalizing loose ends: a greedy stepson, shaky business deals, and other women whose lives are somehow connected to the dead man.

So Gwenn begins to snoop around a wealthy middle-class enclave in Queens, not far from where, thirty years ago, neighbors calmly watched the brutal murder of Kitty Genovese. It is now a safe and sheltered place whose green lawns and large homes belie the lives of the people who own them.

The perfect spot for murder...

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"Lillian O'Donnell proves once again that she can write about real life and real people better than almost anyone in this genre." -- Mostly Murder

"The second appearance of New York P.I. Gwenn Ramadge confirms the propitious launch, in A Wreath for the Bride, of veteran mystery writer O'Donnell's newest series...The kind-hearted, tough female P.I. resolves the tale with a neat twist." -- Publishers Weekly

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The second appearance of New York PI Gwenn Ramadge confirms the propitious launch, in A Wreath for the Bride , of veteran mystery writer O'Donnell's newest series (she also writes the two series starring Norah Mulcahaney and Mici Anhalt). Emma Trent, a dance teacher and young widow now married to older executive Douglas Trent, returns home one night to find her husband bludgeoned to death in an apparent burglary. Because her first husband, another older man, also died while she was out of the house, she is a natural suspect. Then Adam McClure, one of Emma's young male students, kills himself after police find the baseball bats he and his friend Paulie Kellen used to commit the murder; Adam leaves a note incriminating Emma, who hires Gwenn to clear her name. Gwenn, who battles police detective Lew Sackler, whom she is dating, and police sergeant Ray Dixon for facts in the case, redoubles her efforts when Paulie is found shot to death. The kind-hearted, tough female PI resolves the tale with a neat twist.
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