The Puzzled Heart - Hardcover

Cross, Amanda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345418832 ISBN 13: 9780345418838

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1998

Synopsis

Kate Fansler desperately searches for her kidnapped husband, Reed, with the help of her new canine companion, a St. Bernard puppy named Bancroft, and she must discover who has perpetrated this malicious crime before it is too late. Tour.

About this title

About the Author:

Amanda Cross is the pseudonymous author of the bestselling Kate Fansler mysteries, of which The Puzzled Heart is the twelfth.

As Carolyn G. Heilbrun, she is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities Emerita at Columbia University. She has served as president of the Modern Language Association as well as vice president of the Authors Guild. Dr. Heilbrun is also the author of Writing a Woman's Life, Hamlet's Mother and Other Women, The Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem, and, most recently, The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty.

From the Inside Flap:

tly readable and satisfying," said P. D. James about Amanda Cross's acclaimed New York mysteries featuring English professor Kate Fansler.

Those accolades apply equally to The Puzzled Heart, in which Kate Fansler's husband Reed is kidnapped--and will be killed unless Kate obeys the carefully delineated directives of a ransom note.

Tormented by her own puzzled heart, Kate seeks solace and wise counsel from both old friends and new. But who precisely is the enemy? Is he or she a vengeful colleague? A hostile student? A terrorist sect? The questions mount as Kate searches for Reed--accompanied by her trusty new companion, a Saint Bernard puppy named Bancroft.

Hovering near Kate and Bancroft, almost within touch, are rampant cruelties and calculated menace. The madness of our time is on the move. And the moment is ripe for murder. . . .

The elegant crime novels of Amanda Cross have thrilled a generation of readers. The Puzzled Heart reconfirms her

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0345418832
• ISBN 13: 9780345418838
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 257