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  • Flesh and Blood

  • A Frank Clemons Mystery, Book 2
  • By: Thomas H. Cook
  • Narrated by: Ray Chase
  • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins

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Flesh and Blood

By: Thomas H. Cook
Narrated by: Ray Chase
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Publisher's Summary

The sleek high-rises of Park Avenue make Frank Clemons uneasy. The former Atlanta homicide detective came to New York after a sickening murder case soured him on the South, but despite the glitz and excitement of his new surroundings and the beauty of the woman he shares them with, the city makes his skin crawl.

Now a private eye, he is only at ease in the city's darker corners, among the whores, gamblers, and pimps who call Eighth Avenue home. That affinity for the socially isolated is what draws him to the case of Hannah Karlsberg, an elderly seamstress who deserved a better death than she got.

Hannah's employer hires Clemons to find the victim's next of kin so the police can release the body for burial, but as he learns about the dead woman's past, which stretches back to the Lower East Side sweatshops of the 1930s, Clemons becomes obsessed with unearthing the decades-old secret that led to her death.

©1989 1989 Thomas H. Cook. Recorded by arrangement with The Mysterious Press.com, LLC. (P)2014 HighBridge Company

Critic Reviews

"Rich in character, complex in plot.... Cook constructs a many-layered and shimmering tale in which the history, locale and personality build to an unsuspected, satisfying end." ( Publishers Weekly)
"Strong prose and steel-etched characters complete an enticing puzzle." ( Library Journal)
"Thomas H. Cook triumphs at teaching an old dog some new tricks." ( The New York Times)

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