Distortions by Ann Beattie
What she doesn't know For Quinn Masterson, a federal agent still recovering from a violent abduction when she was a teenager, the goal is simple: find a killer before he has the chance to kill again. Won't hurt her The wreckage of a passenger jet lies in a field in Pennsylvania and Quinn has just joined the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico. This shouldn't be her first case, but her new boss has it out for her and Quinn doesn't know why. It will kill her What she does know is that the bomber isn't your run-of-the-mill killer. Jars of human bile in his attic and a single word scrawled on the floor: RETRIBUTION. It means something and her instincts tell her that unless she can decipher the meaning of that word, she may end up on a killer's table again, and this time she may not be so lucky. What They're Saying about Distortions A gut punch with twists and turns at every corner. Reads like a police procedural that captures the stark chimera of human nature and puts it on display for the world to see. Quinn Masterson is real, approachable, and tremendously flawed, and you want her to win, but the odds are against her. About the Author J.M. Campbell is the author of the Quinn Masterson Mysteries Distortions, For All the Children to See, and One Night in the House of the Creepy Santas, as well as The House That Jack Built, Whispers in The Mist, The Angel of Sallow Cove (2022), and The Spore (2022).-
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Ann Beattie's work has appeared in four O. The Best American Short Tales of the Century, edited by John Updike, and Jennifer Egan's The Best American Short Stories 2014. She won the PEN/Malamud Prize for achievement in the short story in 2000. She won the Rea Prize for Short Fiction in 2005. She was the University of Virginia's Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing.
She belongs to the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her husband, Lincoln Perry, and she split their time between Maine and Key West, Florida.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780679732358 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679732357 |
| Title | Distortions |
| Author | Ann Beattie |
| Series | Vintage Contemporaries |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1991-01-02 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |