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When a Filipino professor of history is murdered, the police put it down to urban violence. Then a mysterious woman, claiming to be his widow turns up but no one believes her story, and Jeri Howard is hired to uncover the truth.Tags
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Once again Janet Dawson blows me away. Her writing style, the plot, the twists and turns kept me from setting it down to the end. The touch of history in the setting of the plot stemming from the end of WWII in the Philippines reminds me that Asia frequently remains a vast mystery to the west.
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Janet Dawson writes highly acclaimed suspense novels about the adventures of Jeri Howard, a female private detective in the San Francisco Bay area. Dawson's first novel, Kindred Crimes won the Private Eye Writers of America Best First Private Eye Novel Contest and was nominated for the Anthony and Shamus awards. Her seventh novel, Witness to Evil, show more takes protagonist Jeri Howard to Paris to rescue a runaway teenager and back to California, where Howard becomes involved in a dangerous confrontation with neo-Nazis. Other Jeri Howard mysteries include Don't Turn Your Back on the Ocean, Nobody's Child, and Till the Old Men Die. Janet Dawson was an enlisted journalist in the Navy before moving to Alameda, Calif. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- Till the Old Men Die
- Original publication date
- 1993
- People/Characters
- Jeri Howard
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- Members
- 113
- Popularity
- 290,102
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.61)
- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 1


























































