Ellen Hart was named the 2017 MWA Grand Master, the most distinguished lifetime achievement award offered in the mystery community.
Joanna Kasimir, an old friend of Jane Lawless, left Minneapolis years ago to make it big in Hollywood and, unlike so many others, she succeeded. Unfortunately, her stardom came at a price. Early in her career, Joanna was involved with a man who quickly went from being an idle interest to a dangerous stalker. Nearly a decade has passed since she sent him to prison, but just as she is about to leave for her hometown to star in her friend Cordelia Thorn's production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, she receives one of his ominous calling cards.
Joanna refuses to let him control her lifeâshe can't. Not again. Tired after ten years of fear, ten years of hiding, she calls on Jane, restaurateur and amateur sleuth, and former homicide detective A. J. Nolan, but they may not be able to protect her from a man who refuses to be anyone's one-night stand.
And when they find out that Joanna may not be the only one on the run, their investigation quickly spins Jane into a deadly game of cat and mouse. Night Vision promises to be one of Ellen Hart's best mysteries yet.
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November 27, 2007 -
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- ISBN: 9781466813441
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- ISBN: 9781466813441
- File size: 302 KB
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- English
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Reviews
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October 2, 2006
At the start of Hart's entertaining, unpredictable 14th mystery to feature lesbian restaurateur and amateur sleuth Jane Lawless (after 2005's The Iron Girl
), movie star Joanna Kasimir returns home to Minnesota to perform in a production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
at her friend Cordelia Thorn's St. Paul theater. As it turns out, Joanna has a lot to be afraid ofâher ex-husband, Gordon, who once served prison time for stalking her, may be back to his old tricks. Joanna enlists her old chum Jane to tail Gordon. Meanwhile, Jane's best friend, Davidâwho happens to be Joanna's brotherâshows up in the Twin Cities carrying secrets that he's afraid to reveal even to Jane. When Gordon turns up dead, David looks like the most plausible suspect. In fact, any number of Joanna's adoring fans might have bumped off her stalker. Hopefully, Jane's long-distance relationship with girlfriend Kenzie, who's mostly offstage, will receive more attention in the next installment. -
November 1, 2006
Minneapolis restaurateur and amateur sleuth Jane Lawless is busy running two restaurants and maintaining a long-distance relationship when theater-director friend (and series regular) Cordelia Thorn invites mutual friend Joanna Kasimir, a reclusive Hollywood star, home to Minnesota to headline " Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" An unwanted bouquet prompts Kasimir to fear that the stalker who made her flee Bel Air is back. Concurrently, David Carlson, Jane's longtime friend and Joanna's estranged brother, materializes at Jane's door. Pitting sib against sib in a deadly game, the fourteenth Lawless mystery gets highly dramatic.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2006, American Library Association.)
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