A Clean Kill
Authors: Leslie Glass
Tags: #Detective, #Mystery & Detective - General, #Police Procedural, #Mystery & Detective, #Fiction - Mystery, #New York (N.Y.), #Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths, #Policewomen, #Fiction, #Woo, #Mystery Fiction, #April (Fictitious character), #Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural, #General, #Women Sleuths, #Mystery, #Chinese American Women, #Suspense, #Police - New York (State) - New York, #Mystery & Detective - Series, #Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), #General & Literary Fiction, #Women detectives, #Northeast, #Crime & mystery, #Travel, #N.Y.), #Murder, #Manhattan (New York, #Detective and Mystery Stories, #United States, #Middle Atlantic, #Women detectives - New York (State) - New York
Praise for A Killing Gift
"Nerve-wracking suspense and humor ... a unique narrative filled with sharp dialogue, quirky characters, and shades of oriental mysticism. Glass brings the Big Apple and its inhabitants to life as only a native New Yorker could, and Manhattanites—as well as mystery aficionados—may well find Woo to be one of the most compelling heroines to grace the genre in years/' —
Publishers Weekly
"The pace is fast, the characters gritty and the intensity . . . grabs the reader."
—Romantic Times Book Club
Praise for
The Silent Bride
"If you haven't succumbed to the Woo/Glass one-two punch,
The Silent Bride
should win you over."
—Chicago Tribune
"The author [has a] flair for capturing cultural idio- syncrasies and developing quirky characters. . . . With its rich characterizations and well-drawn setting, this rollicking mystery is a plentiful source of comic thrills and suspenseful chills."
—Publishers Weekly
"Excellent. . . . The strength of the series continues to be the characterization, especially the details of April's dilemma in trying to reconcile her Chinese heritage with her American way of thinking."
—The Mystery Reader
"Woo comes across as wonderfully human. . . . Plenty of suspense and enough red herrings to make it interesting." —
Crescent Blues
coninued
More praise for the novels of Leslie Glass
"One terrific read." —Tami Hoag
"Glass anatomizes relationships with a light touch of the scalpel."
—The New York Times Book Review
"Skillful . . . compelling. . . . Weaving together divergent cultures and their people is one of Ms. Glass's strengths." —
The Dallas Morning News
"Detective Woo is the next generation descended from Ed McBain's 87th precinct."
—The Hartford Courant
"Fast-paced, gritty. . . . [April Woo] joins Kinsey Millhone and Kay Scarpetta in the ranks of female crime fighters." —
Library Journal
"Builds to an explosive climax as unpredictable and surprising as April Woo herself. A fresh, engrossing read." —Perri O'Shaughnessy
"An intense thriller. . . . Glass provides several surprises, characters motivated by a lively cast of inner demons and, above all, a world where much is not as it initially seems." —
Publishers Weekly
"Glass not only draws the reader into the crazed and gruesome world of the killer, but also cleverly develops the character of Woo . . . and her growing attraction for partner Sanchez."
—Orlando Sentinel
"A masterful storyteller in the field of psychological suspense." —
Abilene Reporter-News
"Sharp as a scalpel . . . scary as hell. Leslie Glass is Lady McBain." —Michael Palmer
"If
you're a Thomas Harris fan anxiously awaiting the next installment of the 'Hannibal the Cannibal' series and looking for a new thriller to devour, you'll find it in
Burning Time."
—Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
"A suspensefull story in which those who appear to be sane may actually harbor the darkest secrets of all." —
Mostly Murder
"The plot is clever . . . and the ending is a genuine surprise. Woo is so appealing a protagonist that Leslie Glass can keep her going for a long time."
—The Newark Star-Ledger
"Glass writes a masterful police procedural. ... But it's her wonderfully rich portrait of smart, sensible, intrepid, stubborn April Woo that sets this book apart." —
Booklist
"Brilliant . . . Skillfully done." —
The Tampa Tribune
"Glass does a masterful job of building suspense, and she's a wizard at creating believable, unforgettable characters." —
Romantic Times
"This series [is] a winner." —
Mystery News
"Tough, fast, edgy book." | a layered and rewarding |
ALSO BY LESLIE GLASS
For Love and Money
Over His Dead Body
A Killing Gift
The Silent Bride
Tracking Time
Stealing Time
Judging Time
Loving Time
Hanging Time
Burning Time
To Do No Harm
Modern Love
Getting Away with It
Leslie Glass
A
CLEAN KILL
AN ONYX BOOK
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First published by Onyx, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
First Printing, June 2005 10 987654321
Copyright © Leslie Glass, 2005 All rights reserved
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For the Home Team— Jim, Alex, Lindsey, Rocky, and Julius
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks to all the police officers who have shared their stories with me over the years. It is always an honor and a privilege to work with them. They are the heart of all my NYPD stories. I take my liberties with the geography of New York City, but not with the Department. I do my best to get it right. Cheers to all my friends at the New York City Police Foundation, and to all who work so hard at NAL to make my books look so good.
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veryone has a favorite place and a favorite time of day. For Madeleine Wilson, mornings in her private spa in the garden at the back of her town house were her salvation. Every day that she had to endure the pressure of living in New York with her famous husband, Wayne, and two hyperactive little boys, she spent the hours between eight and eleven in her private gym to get away from them.
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