In a True Light - Softcover

Harvey, John

3.58

220 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786712295 ISBN 13: 9780786712298

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, 2003

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Sloane's past in New York's bohemian 1950s is never far from the slippery surface of his present in this stylish noir tale from John Harvey, the award-winning novelist touted by the London Times as "the King of Crime." Nearing sixty, Sloane has just finished serving two years in an English prison for art forgery, when he's summoned to Pisa by Jane Graham, the celebrated artist with whom he had an affair four decades before, in New York. Now on her deathbed, Jane reveals that Sloane fathered a child with her. Jane's last wish is that he find their missing daughter. Sloane agrees, but his trouble only begins when he locates the confused, edgy Connie. Let alone that she is wasting her bluesy voice singing in New York's smalltime jazz clubs; she is wasting her life big-time on Vincent Delaney, her volatile mob-connected manager. An unfamiliar paternal instinct pulls Sloane into Connie's rescue and a maelstrom of criminal violence, serial murder, police procedures, hard truths, and increasingly dangerous consequences.

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Review:

"All of [his] rich talent is in evidence in In a True Light." (The Times)

"In a True Light is a pitch-perfect, pulp-noir cocktail from a true master." (George P. Pelecanos)

From the Publisher:

A stunning stand-alone crime novel from the author of the highly acclaimed Resnick series. This is John Harvey’s first stand-alone crime novel, set in London, Italy and New York.

Resnick won the 1999 Sherlock Award for Best British Detective. Cold Light won the Grand Prix du Roman Noir �tranger (for the best foreign crime novel published in France in 1999) at the 2000 Cognac International Festival.

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