37th Hour by Jodi Compton
Sarah Pribek is a police officer in Minneapolis' Missing Persons department. Her department, always small, is down to two people since the brutal rape and murder of her partner Genevieve's teenage daughter. Everyone knew who the killer was because the daughter told them before her death, but he got off on a technicality, and Genevieve, after months of grief leave, is still paralysed by anger and her sense of betrayal. Sarah is married to Shiloh, another police officer, a sexy man of mystery and few words, who is about to go to Quantico for FBI training. But he never shows up and Sarah is forced to conduct a Missing Persons search for her own husband. It takes her to his family where she hears of a sister she never knew he had, to New Mexico, where she herself grew up, and finally back to Genevieve, where all the threads of this brilliantly told novel come together.
'A dazzling debut. . Watch this writer. She does it all: plots intelligently, writes elegantly, and creates characters who compel attention the old-fashioned way - by making you believe in them.' - Kirkus Reviews'First class, serious crime fiction' - Publishers WeeklyNail-biter of a debut novel . . . Compton skillfully weaves together strands of Pribek's life . . . into a complex, shocking whole. From the first scene--a teenage girl teetering on a railway trestle over the Mississippi--to the harrowing resolution, Compton uses suspense as a powerful propellant. - Booklist'An intelligent and challenging thriller' - New York Times on THE 37TH HOUR
Jodi Compton is from Northern California, but lived for three years in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the main setting of BLUE EARTH. She has worked for the Minneapolis bureau of the Associated Press, and as a sub-editor at a newspaper on California s central coast. In the latter position, she closely followed crime and courts news on the wires, and during this time wrote BLUE EARTH. Never married, she is at work on a second novel about Hennepin County detective Sarah Pribek.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780340828670 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340828676 |
| Title | 37th Hour |
| Author | Jodi Compton |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 2003-12-08 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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