Living Proof: A Charlie Resnick Novel
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0805020454 / Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, June 1995
Struggling with an overstretched budget on the police force, Charlie Resnick worries about a series of murders and a visiting star writer who has been receiving poison pen letters
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It's early summer in Nottingham and the weather has turned warm. An invitation to loiter. And to crime. Given the budget crunch - new recruitment on hold, expenditures trimmed tighter than a poodle's rump - it's policing by the numbers, a boon time for cost accountants, not cops. So the last thing Charlie Resnick needs is a slasher. Or a media celebrity who has to be baby-sat.Cathy-Jordan is one of the big-name centerpieces of the city's annual Shots in the Dark crime festival. A best-selling mystery writer in America whose fame has preceded her, she's attracting a lot of attention - not all of it welcome.A series of poison-pen letters has trailed her across the Atlantic, each promising a very nasty death. From the letters, it's clear that Jordan's pen pal has read her closely - and is not a fan.
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