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She's a hard-boiled Sacramento P.I. with a soft spot for the unlucky, the unloved, and one special cop named Hank. Her name is Kat Colorado, and in her business curiosity can be more than an occupational hazard -- it can be murder. It's hard to tell where the truth ends and the lies begin when Kat is hired to look into the death of a young woman in a historic California gold-country resort town. The police have closed the books on Deidre Durkin's murder; it was show more a tragic robbery-homicide. But could a clever murderer have created the illusion of a parking-lot theft gone bad? Was Deidre's loving husband as perfect as he seemed? The more Kat finds out about the victim, the less she's convinced that Deidre was the woman she appeared to be. But then Kat, in her undercover role as a bartender, isn't the person she pretends to be, either. And as Kat discovers, in this little town, even life and death are an illusion. show lessTags
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I just picked up a 1992 copy of this book from a library used book sale. Kat Colorado, P.I., is undercover as a bar tender in California gold country trying to learn what really happened to the romantic and mysterious Deidre Durkin. Was she the victim of a random murder/robbery? Well, of course not, but there are several viable alternatives. Kat solves the mystery, and excises some personal demons during the process. Definitely a step or two above a formula whodunit, although it had far too much profanity for my taste.
A solidly entertaining and largely believable read.
Kat disguises self to discover murderer of Gold country bar owners wife
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Karen Kijewski grew up in Berkeley, California, surrounded by books. Her earliest memories were of toddling behind her mother as they headed to the library. Kijewski majored in English in college and then went on to teach English at Brookline High School in Massachusetts, but she eventually left teaching to fulfill her lifelong calling as a show more writer. For eight years after becoming a full-time writer, Kijewski worked as a bartender at night to supplement her income. During this period, she completed four manuscripts, all of which she submitted to New York publishing houses, but it was with her fifth manuscript that Kijewski became a published author. The winner of St Martin's "The Best First Private Eye Novel of the Year Contest," Kijewski's first book, Katwalk, was the basis for her successful Kat Colorado Series thrillers. The principal character in Kijewski's nine-book series, Kat Colorado, is a private detective in Sacramento, California. Some of the books in the series include Katwalk, Katapult, Kat's Cradle, and Stray Kat Waltz. Kijewski uses real-life experiences, past and present, to make her novels realistic and identifiable. Kijewski's seventh novel in the series, Honky Tonk Kat, is set in Nashville and California and was researched in Nashville and on tour with country music star Lari White. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Copy Kat
- Original publication date
- 1992
- People/Characters
- Kat Colorado
- Important places
- Sacramento, California, USA; California, USA
- Dedication
- For Michael, Luciene, Aimee, and Jennifer.
- First words
- I didn't recognize her without her clothes.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But I said it.
It was a start.
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