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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9781416525882
ISBN number: 1416525882
Label: Pocket Star
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Quantity: 1
Page Count: 400
Printing Date: July 29, 2008
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Dig up the past. Pay the price.
With one phone call from a man he barely recalls meeting years ago, South Florida detective Louis Kincaid heads to the Michigan town of his college days to reopen a disturbing cold case -- and finds himself confronting his own painful past secrets...secrets that risk his future with the woman he loves, detective Joe Frye.
Ann Arbor police detective Jake Shockey wants Kincaid's help in the case of Jean Brandt, who went missing nine years ago -- and whose husband, Owen, has since been paroled. Now, Owen Brandt's girlfriend appears to be at risk, and Shockey is desperate to get involved. Kincaid soon unearths the deeply personal reasons why...and with Joe Frye assisting, Kincaid links yesterday's jealousies with today's potentially lethal vengeance. It's only a matter of time before one will win out over the other -- and before Kincaid's own shattering revelations will be forced out into the light of day.
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I live north of Hell, in Michigan that is. I live in Livingston, county so I found the book very interesting. I have been to many places in the book, so it was very relevant. Since reading my very first P.J.Parrish book, I have read 2 more and have 2 more waiting to be read and 1 on the way. Their writing is very interesting since it takes place in my home state a lot.
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I read one PJ Parrish book & instantly purchased five more. I love the fast pace of their writing (it's a sister team) and this one had an excellent history to it about the underground railroad that I found fascinating. You won't be able to put it down.
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P. J. Parrish is the collaborative name of two sisters, Kristy Montee and Kelly Nichols, who publish a seamless series of novels set in the 1980s that concern private investigator Louis Kincaid and his love interest, a former rookie policewoman and now detective Joe Frye.
SOUTH OF HELL, the latest installment in this superlative series, contains all of the elements that have made these books a commanding and addicting reading experience almost from their inception. Kincaid is an ex-Michigan cop, a golden boy who experienced a sudden and dramatic fall from grace and who now finds himself making ends meet, if barely, as a South Florida private detective. Frye, on the other hand, is on an upward career trajectory, employed in northern Michigan and planning a run for the sheriff's office. The two of them make an unlikely couple: she's white, he's of mixed race; she's squared away, he's not; and both are, each relative to the other, geographically undesirable. They have so many rough edges that it's inevitable someone gets cut, and often. Rough edges, however, also provide stimulation, and Parrish, with subtle revelation, communicates the unspoken attraction between the couple as well.
Kincaid is beginning to feel somewhat prickly over the fact that he has not heard from Frye for several days. When he eventually receives a call from Michigan, it is not from Frye but from Jake Shockey, a middle-aged police detective. Shockey wants Kincaid to come up to Ann Arbor to assist him in reopening an old missing person case. Kincaid handled the initial investigation, though his memory of doing so is subsequent to none. His education at the university in Ann Arbor ended in disappointment, his career in law enforcement terminated in bitterness, and he is considered to be "toxic." And, as we come to learn, he has a secret buried in the past that is a source of sharp if silent shame to him. Still, a trip there will bring Kincaid closer to Frye.
Hoping to fill time as well as salvage the relationship, Kincaid returns only to almost immediately regret it. Shockey, though not broken, is so badly bent as to make little difference between the two. The case he would like to reopen is that of Jean Brandt, with whom he was involved at the time of her disappearance. Her husband, Owen, who has since been imprisoned for assaulting another woman, is about to be released. Shockey is convinced that Owen murdered his wife and hid the body, perhaps on his ramshackle farm. He wants Kincaid to assist him in tampering with evidence in the case. A horrified Kincaid refuses but reluctantly agrees to help him revive the investigation.
Assisted by Frye in a non-official capacity, Kincaid conducts a search of Brandt's abandoned farm --- located, ironically, just south of hell --- only to find a young woman hiding in the decrepit house. It develops that the girl, unknown to Shockey, is Amy, Jean's daughter. Amy is close to feral as the result of a number of factors, not the least of which is her having borne witness to a series of violent events that are locked deep within her mind. Meanwhile, Owen, a terrifying, violent force housed in a waste of skin, is released from prison, hell bent on returning to and acquiring what he considers to be his, as well as finding out once and for all what happened to Jean. Kincaid, Shockey and Owen are soon on a collision course that results in a resolution, but one paid with violent and bloody coin.
The events set forth in SOUTH OF HELL mark a significant turning point for Kincaid, as he is forced to make one of those choices that will change his life, perhaps forever. In the course of solving one mystery from his past, Kincaid must confront, quite dramatically, the aftershock of his own past actions. There is also a bit of neat contrast here, a very subtle comparison of how two men react quite differently to similar revelations. In addition, the book introduces a couple of new characters, of whom we will almost certainly see more.
SOUTH OF HELL ultimately explores the extremes of human behavior, and many of the points in between, through a stark and unflinching point of view that is nonetheless tempered with the promise and fulfillment of redemption.
--- Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub
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It may be allegorical, but Hell is a real town in Michigan. Of course, what transpires there in this novel wasn't particularly pleasant, in keeping with the title. Nevertheless, it is a rich but eerie story featuring Louis Kincaid, Florida PI, and his girlfriend, Joe Frye, now an under-sheriff in Michigan.
Louis receives a telephone call from a Michigan detective he met years before, requesting his help in the suspected murder years before of a woman with whom the caller had a relationship. He suspect is the woman's husband, who has just been released from prison for a different offense. Louis travels to Michigan and becomes involved in the investigation, as does Joe, who visits him soon after his arrival.
The authors--two sisters--have contrived a gripping tale of the past and present, as well as relationships that are introspective and telling in human emotions. This is the second in the Kincaid/Frye mystery series, and continues the saga of their personal lives, as well as giving the reader an absorbing tale to keep the pages turning. Recommended.
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