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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780312940577
ISBN number: 0312940572
Label: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
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Page Count: 368
Printing Date: May 30, 2006
Publishing house: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Release Date: May 30, 2006
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Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid likes to be where the action is: at the scene of a crime, at the arrest of a suspect, with the cops on the Major Crimes Team. But when street smart, plugged-in reporter Percy Crenshaw is brutally murdered in the midst of pursuing a major story, she knows the stakes are high…
Within days, cops have a suspect; then a confession. Yet Samantha suspects that something is very wrong, and her concerns keep coming back to the police. The cop who got the confession used tough tactics. The murdered reporter was romantically linked to a cop’s wife. And all of the cops she’s concerned about are close to her live-in boyfriend, Detective Chuck Forbes.
Forced to prosecute a case in which the defendant may be an innocent man, Samantha must tread carefully to uncover the truth about Percy’s murder -- without tearing her career, her home life, and the city apart. But just when she thinks her job can’t get any more difficult, another more shocking crime comes to light...
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Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid returns in her third outing, Close Case. Samantha's cop boyfriend Chuck Forbes has officially become her shack up honey. Everything is going well in her world, until the brutal murder of Percy Crenshaw, a local and famous African American crime reporter. To make matters worse, a white cop is accused of murdering a grey unarmed female. Tensions run high as Samantha is forced to merge her relationship with a cop, who sides with his cop pals, with her responsibilities as an attorney, and satisfying the needs of a racially divided city. Between catching murders and prosecuting a cop, Samantha is making enemies left and right, and destroying valuable friendships along the way. New character, Heidi Hatmaker, colleague and friend of the now deceased Perry Crenshaw, dives into his files to determine if the subsequent big story he was working on contributed to his murder. She pairs with Samantha and the two of them race against the clock to catch the real bad guys. The plot in Close Case is a little wobbly, jumping from one story to another. The climax and conclusion are so abrupt attempting to tie everything together that it appeared rushed, sloppy and slightly disappointing. The character development and the social and romantic issues where very solid and helped to keep the book afloat. The new characters and returning of others gave the book a feel of James Patterson's Women's Murder Club series, just maybe not so successfully. Close Case hit some great parts but completely missed others; altogether it was a good read and a nice addition to series. Valerie Jones mrsvaljones@netzero.net
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Alafair Burke's later book shows much more maturity than her very first book. She is coming close to the excitement and emotion that her father's books cause in the reader. I am becoming attached to Samantha Kincaid and hope that Alafair continues writing about her.
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Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R34YIDZ4SIFA1P This reads more like chick lit than mystery.
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For those fans of legal thrillers, Close Case by talented Alafair Burke will fill the bill. It takes the reader step-by=step through the development of a case against a defendant and what could happen to make the case disappear at some point in the investigation. Samantha Kincaid is handed tow hot-potato cases that involve race relations as well as suspicious deaths. She is caugt among the many sides of the law in trying to pursue her case with fairness. The defense lawyers, the arresting officers and her bosses in the district attorney's office all seem to want to tell her how to handle the case or at least have a hand in her decision-making process. This puts a pressure on her private life that causes trouble between her and the police officer she is living with as he is involved in one of the cases. A delicate balancing act is called for, and that is not Samantha's specialty. She has been to lose it when pushed too far. Close Case is written from two points of view, Samantha's very first person and third person for the others, an unusual combination in writing style, but it works in this tale. The author has carefully kept them separate and distinct in weaving the plot and subplots. This is not a shoot 'em up, has no car chases, but does offer a steadily increasing sense of tension as the story progresses, a sense of action to come causing the reader to wonder what will happen next. Written with a light touch that keeps the pacin even and moving forward, Close Case will hold your attention from beginning to end. Recommended as a well told tale that will have you looking for other books by this very able author. Enjoy. I did.
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This is a book by the daughter of the well-known writer, James Lee Burke. A thumbnail biography at the end of the book states that Alafair Burke graduated from Stanford Law School, is a "former district attorney in Portland, Oregon," and that she "now teaches criminal law at Hofstra Law School."
James Lee Burke's books are widely popular and of the sort that I would read after extracting every last crumb from a crumbling set of Readers' Digest and maybe a 1948-51 run of National Geographic--but only if I were REALLY hurting for a literary fix. Alafair Burke is, thank heaven, a quite different writer. She skillfully avoids her father's orotundity on the one hand and his swamp snobbery on the other. She tells a straightforward tale in an admirably lean and efficient manner, comes to an end, and then stops.
I have, of course, no way in which to confirm the impression, but I find her descriptions of the activities and people of the Multnomah County DA's office and the Portland Police Department to be convincing to a degree not often found in mystery novels.
Burke's heroine, Deputy DA Samantha Kincaid, is refreshingly more astringent than she is likeable. She's given to occasional bouts of self-doubt and second guessing--none of which she would ever admit to anyone else. The exigencies of commercial plotting insure that Ms. Kincaid life and career may be a bit more ... intense than that of DAs in general, but I look forward both to catching up with her earlier adventures and following her new ones.
Four solid stars.
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