Book-Nightbird , Edward Dee , PB

Book-Nightbird , Edward Dee , PB-4685

The fourth installment in Dee's gritty police series
gets off to a promising start when the body of young
Broadway actress Gillian Stone plummets from a
building onto the top of a parked van in Times Square,
and detectives Anthony Ryan and Joe Gregory quickly
realize that her fatal leap may not have been a
suicide. The case takes an interesting turn when they
discover that Gregory's nephew, magazine writer Danny
Eumont, is not only the former boyfriend of the dead
actress, but that he received a call from her just
hours before her death. But the fingerpointing shifts
from Eumont to Gillian's most recent romantic partner,
stage producer Trey Winters, when the detectives learn
that he was the last person to see her alive. Working
with the detectives on the case, Eumont follows the
trail of clues to Arizona, Florida and back to New
York, researching the missing link in the
investigation, who turns out to be the victim's
half-sister, Faye Boudreau. Peeling back layers of
Faye's hidden identities, Eumont has a brief fling
with her and soon discovers that she's involved with
her violent, possessive foster brother in a scheme to
blackmail the philandering producer. Ryan and Gregory
provide their usual stream of sarcastic patter, and
the author introduces an engaging array of New York
oddballs, immigrants, criminals and seductresses. But
Dee (Bronx Angel; Little Boy Blue) doesn't develop
much intrigue or surprise around the initial crime
after the chilling promise of the opening scene. The
final chase, through Randall's Island and Ward's
Island, provides a brief flurry of excitement, but
readers will appreciate this tale not for its tepid
suspense quotient but rather for the snappy, even
irreverent NYPD duo's banter throughout. Agent, Gail
Hochman. Used Read twice.ISBN: 0446609137 #4685
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