Hot Pursuit: A Gillian Adams Mystery (Gillian Adams Mysteries) - Hardcover

Kelly, Nora

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9781590580141: Hot Pursuit: A Gillian Adams Mystery (Gillian Adams Mysteries)

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ISBN 10: 1590580141 ISBN 13: 9781590580141

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press, 2002

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A great city is a mirror reflecting everyone's dreams and desperation. From Arthur Ellis Award winner Nora Kelly comes a powerful suspense story set in London.
Gillian Adams has moved to London to live with policeman Edward Gisborne, her lover of many years. Feeling displaced, she seeks out her old friend Charlotte, once a brilliant television producer. But Charlotte is sunk in despair, and her daughter Olivia, a young actress, is fleeing from a disturbed fan who may be a dangerous stalker. London, on the brink of the new millennium, boils with traffic, money and a record heat wave. After Charlotte is found dead, events gather towards an explosive climax as Olivia confronts her pursuer and the terrible sequel to a hidden past. Complex characters, diamond-sharp prose and a vivid sense of London old and new draw the reader into a novel of suspense in which love, obsession, tragedy and renewal are inextricably linked.

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About the Author:

Nora Kelly grew up in New Jersey and spent summers on Cape Cod. While living in Cambridge she wrote her first Gillian Adams mystery, In the Shadow of King's (reprinted by Poisoned Pen Press, 1999), and followed with My Sister's Keeper and Bad Chemistry. Old Wounds, her fourth, won the 1999 Arthur Ellis Best Novel Award from the Canadian Crime Writers Association. The author lives in Vancouver, BC, where she teaches part-time.

From Publishers Weekly:

In Kelly's fifth polished cozy to feature Canadian professor Gillian Adams (after Old Wounds, winner of the 1999 Arthur Ellis Best Novel Award), Gillian has moved from Vancouver to London to share a flat with her longtime lover, Edward Gisborne, a Scotland Yard Inspector. When our heroine looks up an old friend, Charlotte Douglas, who's been unwell since her husband left her years before, Gillian learns that Charlotte's actress daughter, Olivia Bening, has just made her first major film. Unfortunately, a very disturbed young man, Kevin Brody, has been stalking Olivia. The astute reader will recognize the lad for a time bomb. Kevin takes an awfully long time to go off, but provides just about the only suspense, apart from Charlotte's mysterious death in her garden. Otherwise, the plot proceeds by a series of chats. Charlotte and Olivia share a dark secret that is as predictable as most everything else in the novel. On the plus side, the author excels in giving us a feel for contemporary London during a heat wave ("As stragglers from after-hours clubs fell from taxis into unmade beds, the mercury climbed, and the soft, dusky faces of terraces and warehouses hardened in the daylight"), and her characters do have a solidity about them. One can believe Olivia is an actress and Kevin a mental case. And Kevin's explosive finale is genuinely exciting. Kelly has a loyal following, and while this latest is not up to her usual high standard, her fans will look forward to it just the same.
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