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Loading... Goodnight, Irene (1993)by Jan Burke
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Enjoyable, I'll continue the series ( ) Irene Kelly's best friend was killed by a bomb placed on his front porch. He was a old school newspaper man. Irene's search for O'Connel's killer leads her to a decades old unsolved murder of a woman dubbed Hannah. Irene's life as well as the lives of those she cares about are put at risk. This is a fast moving story, a real page turner. Although the murders are gruesome, the written detail is not. This is a quality which I greatly appreciate in a book. I don't care for detailed gory exposition in anything Zi read. I will definitely be on the hunt for more books by Jan Burke This is the first in the Irene Kelly series. I enjoyed it and found it to be an exciting, edge-of-your seat mystery. Back Cover Blurb: For thirty-five years the identity of the dismembered woman found under the Las Piernas pier has remained a mystery. What secret did she take to her grave? Southern California reporter Irene Kelly has uncovered a maze of forensic records and confidential files that suggest a motive far more sinister than anyone imagined. The discovery has brought her close to Detective Frank Harriman, and closer still to exposing a killer who will resort to anything to keep his secrets buried - and Irene silenced forever....... While I found the mystery part of the story pretty easy to figure out, I still enjoyed this book a great deal. As it is the first in a series, a lot of time was spent developing the characters and explaining relationships, etc. I thought it was a good blend of mystery, humor and romance. I'm looking forward to reading the next in the series. no reviews | add a review
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Packed with intrigue and danger, Jan Burke's Irene Kelly mysteries thrill her many avid fans. The morning after Irene says goodnight to her old journalist friend O'Connor, he is killed suddenly upon opening a letter bomb. As the smoke clears, a devastated Irene determines to find the mail-bomber by tracing threads of an unsolved crime from 1955-the same cold case O'Connor had been obsessed with. No library descriptions found. |
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