Hanging Time

by Leslie Glass

April Woo (2)

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In an expensive boutique on New York's Upper West Side, a young salesgirl is persuaded to open the door to her death.

In the chaos of a police station, ambition and sexual politics raise the stakes of solving a vicious crime.

In his office, a famed psychoanalyst hears a sister's tale of emotional terrorism and madness.

For April Woo and Jason Frank, suspense fiction's most engrossing detective team, the clock is ticking on another brutal killing.

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Hanging Time follows Burning Time in the April Woo series, and once again this is not a particularly good book. It's rare that I give up on a book, however this nearly made it to that exclusive club.

I'd even describe the first half as dull, it's not until the second murder and the conflicting evidence in the investigation comes that the story gets vaguely interesting. Not to the point of gripping mind you, just vaguely interesting where you somewhat question your original assumptions on who the real killer is, and yes despite the authors giant runway lights attempting to lead you in the direction of the easy open and shut answer, the true answer is right in front of you from virtually the beginning. Then just in case you didn't pick show more that up there's a trail of breadcrumbs throughout the entire novel that point to that answer also.

I also feel that if this book were published today a good segment of the outrage culture subscribers would be all over this as racist with it's frequent 'Asian talk' such as "rucky rife" et cetera because apparently we the readers cannot truly appreciate an Asian character without caricature dialogue.

In closing, if you're trapped on a island after a plane crash, been convicted and looking at a prison term, or will otherwise ensnared with no entertainment or distractions then this would be an option to pass time, but otherwise I'd recommend looking elsewhere for reading material.
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Te midden van de elegantie en gewelddadigheid van Newyorks Upper West Side wordt een verkoopster gevonden, opgehangen aan een kroonluchter in het magazijn van een trendy boetiek. Het slachtoffer heet Maggie Wheeler. Ze draagt een veel te grote jurk en haar gezicht is misvormd door opzichtige make-up. Kort daarop wordt opnieuw een vrouw op dezelfde wijze opgehangen aangetroffen in een winkel, ditmaal aan Second Avenue. Terwijl het politieonderzoek van deze schijnbaar rituele moorden in een stroomversnelling geraakt, krijgt April Woo een onverwacht telefoontje dat haar op een geheel ander spoor zet. Dan heeft April Woo al haar expertise nodig - plus een korreltje voorouderlijke Chinese wijsheid - om de ingewikkelde draden van deze bizarre show more zaak te ontwarren. show less

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Leslie Glass, who grew up in New York, has worked as a journalist, a playwright, and a novelist. She studied music at Mannes College and received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. Glass started writing the April Woo series in 1995. The stories presented in the novels are all based on real police cases. In 1991, she started the Leslie Glass show more Foundation, which grants graduate research fellowships in the criminal justice and mental health fields. Since 1998, she has been a trustee of the New York City Police Foundation and is actively involved in the Crime Stoppers program. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
Hanging Time
Original title
Hanging Time
Original publication date
1995-10
Epigraph
And lovelier things have mercy shown
to every failing but their own;
And every woe a tear can claim,
Except an erring sister's shame.

~ Lord Byron
Dedication
For Charlotte,
and in loving memory of 
Harrison Salisbury
First words
It was the dog that caught Maggie Wheeler's eye and ended her life.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Without a word he nodded and steered her left for Mexican.

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, Mystery
DDC/MDS
813Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English
LCC
PS3557 .L34 .H36Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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½ (2.59)
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Dutch, English, French, German
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