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Southern Cross
by Patricia Cornwell
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 039914465X
- ISBN 13
- 9780399144653
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
NY: Putnam, 1998. SIGNED. 1st/1st. F/NF. First Edition, first printing with complete number line starting with 1. SIGNED by Cornwell on the title page. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($25.95) with light rubbing. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 359 pages. 6½ x 9½" tall.
A story of corruption, scandal, and robberies that escalate to murder. The place is Richmond, Virginia, where Charlotte Police Chief Judy Hammer has been brought by an NIJ grant to clean up the police force. Patricia Cornwell's sequel to Hornet's Nest features the three main characters of that novel: Police Chief Judy Hammer, Deputy Chief Virginia West, and Officer Andy Brazil.
Synopsis
Patricia Cornwell has a sixth sense about the men and women in blue. In Hornet's Nest , her page-turning novel about crime and police in Charlotte, North Carolina, Cornwell moved behind the badges of these real-life heroes to uncover flesh-and-blood characters who strode through her pages to reveal vulnerable, passionate, brave, sometimes doubting, always fascinating figures. In Southern Cross , Cornwell takes us even closer to the personal and professional lives of big-city police, in a story of corruption, scandal, and robberies that escalate to murder. This time, her setting is Richmond, Virginia, where Charlotte Police Chief Judy Hammer has been brought by an NIJ grant to clean up the police force. Reeling from the recent death of her husband, and resented by the police force, city manager, and mayor of Richmond, Hammer is joined by her deputy chief Virginia West and rookie Andy Brazil on the most difficult assignment of her career. In the face of overwhelming public scrutiny, the trio must bring truth, order, and sanity to a city in trouble.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4337
- Title
- Southern Cross
- Author
- Patricia Cornwell
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 039914465X
- ISBN 13
- 9780399144653
- Publisher
- Putnam
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 359
- Size
- 6.5 x 9.5
- Keywords
- Judy Hammer, signed, patricia cornwell
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Signed Books;
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