A Twist of the Knife: A Novel

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St. Martin's Publishing Group, Mar 21, 2017 - Fiction - 308 pages

Winner of the Tony Hillerman Fiction Award

"A crime novel that transcends the genre—a twisting, high-stakes story with characters so real and so recognizably human, that it breaks your heart a little. Brilliant."
-Shari Lapena, author of the New York Times bestseller The Couple Next Door

Ex-FBI agent Brigid Quinn, now happily settled in Tucson, doesn’t visit her family in Florida much. But her former partner on the force, Laura Coleman—a woman whose life she has saved and who has saved her life in turn—is living there now. So when Laura calls about a case that is not going well, Brigid doesn’t hesitate to get on a plane.

On leave from the Bureau, Laura has been volunteering for a legal group trying to prove the innocence of a man who is on death row for killing his family. Laura is firmly convinced that he didn’t do it, while Brigid isn’t so sure—but the date for his execution is coming up so quickly that they’ll have to act fast to find any evidence that may absolve him before it’s too late...

A Twist of the Knife, Edgar Award and CWA Gold Dagger finalist Becky Masterman’s third Brigid Quinn novel, is the masterful follow-up to Fear the Darkness and Rage Against the Dying.

 

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
6
Section 3
13
Section 4
20
Section 5
26
Section 6
39
Section 7
48
Section 8
66
Section 25
168
Section 26
173
Section 27
194
Section 28
197
Section 29
205
Section 30
211
Section 31
221
Section 32
227

Section 9
76
Section 10
81
Section 11
86
Section 12
90
Section 13
93
Section 14
98
Section 15
105
Section 16
114
Section 17
120
Section 18
127
Section 19
136
Section 20
140
Section 21
145
Section 22
152
Section 23
156
Section 24
161
Section 33
234
Section 34
242
Section 35
248
Section 36
252
Section 37
257
Section 38
261
Section 39
268
Section 40
273
Section 41
278
Section 42
283
Section 43
291
Section 44
298
Section 45
303
Section 46
307
Copyright

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Becky Masterman
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Becky Masterman
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Becky Masterman
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Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2017)

BECKY MASTERMAN, who was an acquisitions editor for a press specializing in medical textbooks for forensic examiners and law enforcement, received her M.A. in creative writing from Florida Atlantic University. Her debut thriller, Rage Against the Dying, was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of 2013, as well as the Macavity, Barry, and Anthony awards. She won the Tony Hillerman Fiction Award for A Twist of the Knife. Becky lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her husband.

Bibliographic information

TitleA Twist of the Knife: A Novel
Book 3 of Brigid Quinn Series, Becky Masterman
AuthorBecky Masterman
PublisherSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 2017
ISBN1250074517, 9781250074515
Length308 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
Fiction / Thrillers / General
Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
  
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