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An old wound forces Cold Case Detective Lauren Riley onto Injured on Duty leave. Unless she rests she faces the threat of early retirement. However, dreading the prospect of doing nothing for six months, Lauren renews her private investigator license.
She's soon contacted by Sharon Whitney, the ex-wife of wealthy Buffalo resident - and suspected mob boss - Howard Whitney. During their bitter divorce twenty years earlier a Picasso painting was stolen from their home and never recovered. After the main suspect passes away from ill health in Ireland, Sharon to hires Lauren to locate the painting - before her ex-husband does.
Lauren expects a low-stress, fact-finding trip yet arrives in Ireland to discover suspicions around the suspect's death and his home ransacked. With the clock ticking, uncovering the truth behind the painting's disappearance may be far more dangerous than Lauren imagined.|While on Injured on Duty leave, Cold Case Detective Lauren Riley is hired as a private investigator to travel to Ireland to locate a stolen Picasso painting. It disappeared twenty years earlier during a bitter divorce between a suspected mob boss and his wife, and the lead suspect just died of ill health . . . or so it is first thought.
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- ISBN: 9781448305315
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- ISBN: 9781448305315
- File size: 1601 KB
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April 1, 2020
The killing of Gunnar Jonsson evokes bad memories for Buffalo homicide detective Lauren Riley and comes to have international implications. Jonsson had traveled from his native Iceland to see his biological father, John Hudson, for the first time; after the meeting, Jonsson was bludgeoned to death near his hotel on the night of a "full cold moon," which occurs every December. Riley is reminded of an unsolved cold case: the disappearance of a 12-year-old boy in 1978 on the night of another full cold moon. She's haunted, too, by the brutality of Jonsson's murder, as she investigates Hudson's two other children for possible financial motive, then learns that Jonsson's boss had come with him to the U.S. but soon vanished. Riley and her cohort, FBI Special Agent Matt Lawton, are sent to Reykjavik to pursue the case as it twists and turns. The fourth entry in the Cold Case Investigation series by retired homicide detective Redmond is on the mark as a police procedural, humanized by Riley's enigmatic relationship with former partner Shane Reese, and enhanced by its Icelandic setting.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2020, American Library Association.)
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