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TETHERED
by MacKinnon, Amy
- New
- first
- Condition
- New/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0307408965
- ISBN 13
- 9780307408969
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Shaye Areheart Books, 2008. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. ARC. New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reader's Copy. Clara Marsh is a young mortician who finds herself entangled in a sordid underworld and a cold-case murder investigation. Detective Mike Sullivan starts questioning Clara again about a body she prepared three years earlier, an unidentified girl found murdered in a nearby strip of woods, christened Precious Doe by the community. When Clara and Mike learn that Trecie, a neglected little girl that Clara discovers playing in the funeral parlor may be involved with the same people who killed Precious Doe, she must choose between her steadfast alliance with loneliness and the perils of binding one's life to another. Darkly atmospheric, suspenseful, fast-paced, and tautly written, TETHERED is at once haunting and terrifying, a book to keep you up all night and on the edge of your seat. New ARC in pictorial wraps. M16
Synopsis
Clara Marsh is an undertaker who doesn't believe in God. She spends her solitary life among the dead, preparing their last baths and bidding them farewell with a bouquet from her own garden. Her carefully structured life shifts when she discovers a neglected little girl, Trecie, playing in the funeral parlor, desperate for a friend.It changes even more when Detective Mike Sullivan starts questioning her again about a body she prepared three years ago, an unidentified girl found murdered in a nearby strip of woods. Unclaimed by family, the community christened her Precious Doe. When Clara and Mike learn Trecie may be involved with the same people who killed Precious Doe, Clara must choose between the stead-fast existence of loneliness and the perils of binding one's life to another.From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11935
- Title
- TETHERED
- Author
- MacKinnon, Amy
- Format/Binding
- ARC
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing
- Binding
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 0307408965
- ISBN 13
- 9780307408969
- Publisher
- Shaye Areheart Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2008
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Product_type
- 2
Terms of Sale
Joe Staats, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Joe Staats, Bookseller
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Los Angeles, California
About Joe Staats, Bookseller
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We specialize in collectible, contemporary signed first editions. First edition means the first printing. (Later printings of the first edition are typically not printed on acid-free paper, and should be avoided by collectors.) Signatures are obtained by us in person. Inscribed books sold by us may contain a line, a phrase, or a sketch that the author has chosen to add. Our signed books are not dedicated to anybody in particular (not to your grandmother, your Aunt Gladys, your ex-lover or your former cellmate), except in the rare case of a presentation copy from an author to a noteworthy person. All our books are hardcover, unless the book is an Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof, or PBO. You can expect that the books we send you will be as described, and in a physical condition worthy of the author’s having signed them. We do not sell remainder-marked books, signed or otherwise
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