Death Of The Party
by Catherine Dain
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near As New
- ISBN 10
- 0373264151
- ISBN 13
- 9780373264155
- Seller
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Mulvane, Kansas, United States
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Content appears as new, unopened, unread and unblemished with fine pictorial wraps displaying absolute minimal surface/edge wear, as shown. Slight creases on spine.
Spunky Faith Cassidy, former recreational drug user, soap star, and morning talk show hostess, now a practicing therapist in Los Angeles, adds amateur detective to her résumé when someone rips off her stereo and jacket. She organizes a Neighborhood Watch and is assigning stakeout duties to block residents when a burglar/drug dealer wearing her purloined jacket turns up dead on her neighbor's doorstep. An anonymous eyewitness tells the cops he saw Jorge Carrasco leaning over the body with knife in hand. Jorge's mom asks Faith to find proof of his innocence—after all, aren't Neighborhood Watch commanders supposed to help out needy neighbors? Acquiescing, Faith is soon snuggling up to the handsome eyewitness, snorting coke with a former lover, and planning an intervention to get him clean. She's also arriving late for her patients' sessions, not even showing up for some of them, and instead finding another body, accosting a drug dealer who then whips out a gun and kills another of her neighbors, and philosophizing about life, romance, and burglars with a gay chum while he puts the moves on a friendly waiter. More talk, more sex, more neighborly chitchat later, Faith and the gentlemanly eyewitness zoom off on his motorcycle in time to hear a few dying words from a killer with a suicide wish.
Faith, reporting from short-story duty for her first novel, is given too many cutesy cats, too many California hip-talking chums, and, yes, too many pounds. But Dain (Angel in the Dark, 1999, etc.) has shortchanged her on plot, and any therapist this discombobulated ought to be sitting at Freud's knee begging for help.
Insurance & handling is included free. Extra Charges/Fees apply on Shipments Outside The U.S. and Expedited Shipments. Oversize and/or heavy books may require additional fees. Will advise Written 10.21.2023 #7212.10.2423 Biblio 10.24.2023 Img.8792
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- Bookseller
- Eve's Reads (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7212.10.2423
- Title
- Death Of The Party
- Author
- Catherine Dain
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- New Near As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Worldwide Ed. 1st Prt’g.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0373264151
- ISBN 13
- 9780373264155
- Publisher
- Worldwide Mystery
- Place of Publication
- Green Bay, WI
- Date Published
- March 2002
- Pages
- 252
- Keywords
- Fiction
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