BLACK WATER - Softcover

Parker, Jefferson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007122195 ISBN 13: 9780007122196

Publisher: HarperFiction, 2010

Synopsis

New psychological suspense novel from bestselling American author of The Blue Hour, Red Light and Silent Joe.

‘Parker has only one rival – Thomas Harris’ Washington Post

Where Sergeant Merci Rayborn is concerned, opinion within the sheriff's department is sharply divided. To some she's a hero for exposing the biggest scandal in the department's history and bringing down the former sheriff. Others cannot forget that, in making her case, she was prepared to implicate her own father and arrest her lover, both well-respected police officers.

Just as the hostility is beginning to die down, a young deputy named Archie Wildcraft is found shot in the head outside his home, next to the gun that has just been used to kill his wife. The evidence points to murder-suicide, and Wildcraft, his memory impaired by the bullet lodged in his brain, can offer nothing to contradict this. But with the arrest of one innocent deputy still plaguing her conscience, Merci is determined to defy the district attorney and pursue the unlikely scenario that Deputy Wildcraft has been framed. Wildcraft, in the meantime, is pursuing his own agenda...

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Review:

Praise for Jefferson Parker
'Insanely imaginative' New York Times

'One of the most entertaining tough-guy writers' Esquire

Advance praise for Black Water
'Parker at the top of his form' Los Angeles Times

Praise for Red Light
‘Parker’s latest sizzles along, an infectious blend of atmosphere, action and passion’
Publisher’s Weekly

Praise for The Blue Hour
‘Jefferson Parker is a powerhouse writer’
New York Times Book Review‘

If you’re seeking a thinking man’s bestseller, T. Jefferson Parker is the writer for you’
Washington Post World Book

From the Back Cover:

Where Sergeant Merci Rayborn is concerned, opinion within the sheriff's department is sharply divided. To some she's a hero for exposing the biggest scandal in the department's history and bringing down the former sheriff. Others cannot forget that, in making her case, she was prepared to implicate her own father and arrest her lover, both well-respected police officers.

Just as the hostility is beginning to die down, a young deputy named Archie Wildcraft is found shot in the head outside his home, next to the gun that has just been used to kill his wife. The evidence points to murder-suicide, and Wildcraft, his memory impaired by the bullet lodged in his brain, can offer nothing to contradict this. But with the arrest of one innocent deputy still plaguing her conscience, Merci is determined to defy the district attorney and pursue the unlikely scenario that Deputy Wildcraft has been framed. Wildcraft, in the meantime, is pursuing his own agenda...

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperFiction
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0007122195
• ISBN 13: 9780007122196
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496