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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.Tags
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This is the first in the Irene Kelly series. I enjoyed it and found it to be an exciting, edge-of-your seat mystery.
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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.......
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.......
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
Great characters and story. I love Jan's writing style. I figured out 'who done it' early on but not sure if that's because I've read too many mysteries. It takes a lot to fool me these days.
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.
Engaging mystery featuring journalist Irene Kelly and Det. Frank Hannigan - set in southern California and bridging past and present crimes. Good character development and nice blend of crime and romance.
Entertaining, light reading, good distraction.
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Jan Burke, an award-winning mystery writer, holds the distinction of being the first woman novelist to win the Ellery Queen Mystery Readers' Award. She was also awarded an Edgar for her Novel, Bones. Her popular mystery series features the newspaper writer Irene Kelly, who lives and works in Southern California. Burke was born in Texas. With her show more family she moved to Southern California when she was a young girl. She attended California State University, Long Beach, earning a degree in history. After graduating, she worked for several years as a manager of a manufacturing plant. Her first novel, Goodnight Irene, was written during those years. Goodnight Irene was well received and the Irene Kelly series has grown in popularity with each subsequent novel. Other notable works from the series are Dear Irene and Hocus. Her works include Bloodlines, Kidnapped, The Messenger, and Disturbance. (Bowker Author Biography) Jan Burke has won the Edgar Award, the Macavity Award & the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Award. She lives in Southern California. (Publisher Provided) show less
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- Canonical title
- Goodnight, Irene
- Original title
- Goodnight, Irene
- Original publication date
- 1993
- People/Characters
- Irene Kelly; O'Connor; Frank Harriman (Detective)
- Important places
- Las Piernas, California, USA
- Dedication
- To Antonia Adamo Fischer, Velda Kuntz Fischer, Eileen Stillman, Martha Burke and Martha Otis in gratitude for their faith
- First words
- He loved to watch fat women dance.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And later, as we lay holding one another in bed, warmed by love and ready at last to fall asleep, I heard him softly sing, "Goodnight, Irene."
- Original language*
- Amerikanisch
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- Languages
- Dutch, English, French, German
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 19
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