Rage Against the Dying - Hardcover

Masterman, Becky

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312622945 ISBN 13: 9780312622947

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2013

Synopsis

You have never met an (ex) FBI agent like Brigid Quinn

"Keeping secrets, telling lies, they require the same skill. Both become a habit, almost an addiction, that's hard to break even with the people closest to you, out of the business. For example, they say never trust a woman who tells you her age; if she can't keep that secret, she can't keep yours. I'm fifty-nine."

Brigid Quinn's experiences in hunting sexual predators for the FBI have left her with memories she wishes she didn't have and lethal skills she hopes never to need again. Having been pushed into early retirement by events she thinks she's put firmly behind her, Brigid keeps telling herself she is settling down nicely in Tucson with a wonderful new husband, Carlo, and their dogs.

But the past intervenes when a man named Floyd Lynch confesses to the worst unsolved case of Brigid's career--the disappearance and presumed murder of her young protégée, Jessica. Floyd knows things about that terrible night that were never made public, and offers to lead the cops to Jessica's body in return for a plea bargain.

It should finally be the end of a dark chapter in Brigid's life. Except...the new FBI agent on the case, Laura Coleman, thinks the confession is fake, and Brigid finds she cannot walk away from violence and retribution after all, no matter what the cost.

With a fiercely original and compelling voice, Becky Masterman's Rage Against the Dyingmarks the heart-stopping debut of a brilliant new thriller writer.

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Review:

Blown away. What else can I tell you? Brigid Quinn is a heroine to cheer for, and Masterman writes like an angel who has seen far too many ungodly things. (Linwood Barclay)

Wow. An absolute pleasure. Chilling, smart, funny, and what a voice she has. (Gillian Flynn, author of the number one New York Times bestseller GONE GIRL)

RAGE AGAINST THE DYING is the kind of thriller that will keep you up long past your bedtime, and Brigid Quinn is the kind of FBI agent you have never met before, but will want to meet again! (Peter Robinson)

The novel is Masterman's debut, though it emphatically doesn't show. She writes with an assurance which many more experienced authors lack, and has created a sizzling page-turner which left me hungry for more. Brigid Quinn is a role model for women of a certain age everywhere! (MYSTERY WOMEN)

Book Description:

A gutsy, gory, startlingly original serial killer thriller with a heroine who'll blow a hole in the American crime landscape

About this edition

• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0312622945
• ISBN 13: 9780312622947
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 307