A Darker Place
Laurie R. King
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
Called "one of the most original talents to emerge in the '90s" by Kirkus Reviews, award-winning author Laurie R. King delivers an intelligent, terrifying, engrossing drama of good and evil, unlike any she has written before.... A respected university professor, Anne Waverly has a past known to few: Years ago, her own unwitting act cost Anne her husband and daughter. Fewer still know that this history and her academic specialty--alternative religious movements--have made her a brilliant FBI operative. Four times she has infiltrated suspect communities, escaping her own memories of loss and carnage to find a measure of atonement. Now, as she begins to savor life once more, she has no intention of taking another assignment. Until she learns of more than one hundred children living in the Change movement's Arizona compound.... Anne soon realizes that Change is no ordinary community and hers is no ordinary mission. For, far from appeasing the demons of her past, this assignment is sweeping her back into their clutches...and to the razor's edge of danger.
Product Details
Price
$7.99
$7.43
Publisher
Bantam
Publish Date
December 01, 1999
Pages
512
Dimensions
4.21 X 6.89 X 1.1 inches | 0.53 pounds
Language
English
Type
Mass Market Paperbound
EAN/UPC
9780553578249
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About the Author
Laurie R. King is the New York Times bestselling author of thirteen Mary Russell mysteries, five contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli, the Stuyvesant & Grey novels Touchstone and The Bones of Paris, and the acclaimed A Darker Place, Folly, and Keeping Watch. She lives in Northern California.
Reviews
"A nail-biter thriller."
--The New York Times Book Review "Laurie R. King once again astonishes with her skills in A Darker Place....Superb."
--The Washington Times "Casts a spell of psychological terror more visceral than any serial killer melodrama and that, for the thoughtful reader, offers intellectual rewards as well."
--The San Diego Union-Tribune "A literary thriller to end all literary thrillers."
--Booknews from The Poisoned Pen
--The New York Times Book Review "Laurie R. King once again astonishes with her skills in A Darker Place....Superb."
--The Washington Times "Casts a spell of psychological terror more visceral than any serial killer melodrama and that, for the thoughtful reader, offers intellectual rewards as well."
--The San Diego Union-Tribune "A literary thriller to end all literary thrillers."
--Booknews from The Poisoned Pen
