Picture 1 of 1
Stock photo
Picture 1 of 1
Stock photo
Darker Place by Laurie R. King (1999, Hardcover)
SecondSalecom (4133388)
98.4% positive feedback
Price:
$5.11
Free shipping
Returns:
30 days returns. Seller pays for return shipping.
Condition:
Notes: Item in good condition.
- Buy It NowA Darker Place - Hardcover By King, Laurie R. - GOOD
Oops! Looks like we're having trouble connecting to our server.
Refresh your browser window to try again.
About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100553107119
ISBN-139780553107111
eBay Product ID (ePID)621008
Product Key Features
Book TitleDarker Place
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1999
TopicPsychological, Religious, Thrillers / Suspense, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorLaurie R. King
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight27.4 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN98-029835
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsPraise For Laurie R. King: "One of the most original talents to emerge in the'90s." --Kirkus Reviews A Darker Place: "Suspenseful...[with] a complicated and enigmatic heroine who perfectly fits the task of illuminating the shadowy world of religious cults." --Publishers Weekly A Grave Talent, winner of the Edgar and Creasey Awards for Best First Crime Novel: "If there is a new P. D. James lurking in this stack of books, I would put my money on Laurie R. King, whose A Grave Talent kept me reading deep into the night." --The Boston Globe "An amazing first novel with intelligence, intrigue, and intricacy--This work exhibits strong psychological undertones, compelling urgency, and dramatic action." --Library Journal With Child: "Warm characterizations--searching insights--This detective has a mind that is always on the move." --The New York Times Book Review "King manages to create from page one of every book the feeling that the reader will be in good hands." --Chicago Tribune To Play the Fool: "Beautifully written, with clearly defined and engaging characters." --The Boston Globe A Monstrous Regiment of Women: "As audacious as it is entertaining and moving." --Chicago Tribune A Letter of Mary: "A lively adventure in the very best of intellectual company." --The New York Times Book Review "The great marvel of King's series is that she's managed to preserve the integrity of Holmes's character and yet somehow conjure up a woman astute, edgy, and compelling enough to be the partner of his mind as well as his heart....Superb." --The Washington Post Book World, Praise For Laurie R. King: "One of the most original talents to emerge in the'90s." --Kirkus Reviews A Darker Place: "Suspenseful...[with] a complicated and enigmatic heroine who perfectly fits the task of illuminating the shadowy world of religious cults." --Publishers Weekly A Grave Talent, winner of the Edgar and Creasey Awards for Best First Crime Novel: "If there is a new P. D. James lurking in this stack of books, I would put my money on Laurie R. King, whoseA Grave Talentkept me reading deep into the night." --The Boston Globe "An amazing first novel with intelligence, intrigue, and intricacy--This work exhibits strong psychological undertones, compelling urgency, and dramatic action." --Library Journal With Child: "Warm characterizations--searching insights--This detective has a mind that is always on the move." --The New York Times Book Review "King manages to create from page one of every book the feeling that the reader will be in good hands." --Chicago Tribune To Play the Fool: "Beautifully written, with clearly defined and engaging characters." --The Boston Globe A Monstrous Regiment of Women: "As audacious as it is entertaining and moving." --Chicago Tribune A Letter of Mary: "A lively adventure in the very best of intellectual company." --The New York Times Book Review "The great marvel of King's series is that she's managed to preserve the integrity of Holmes's character and yet somehow conjure up a woman astute, edgy, and compelling enough to be the partner of his mind as well as his heart....Superb." --The Washington Post Book World
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisWith her debut novel,A Grave Talent, Laurie R. King became the first novelist since Patricia Cornwell to win prizes for Best First Crime Novel on both sides of the Atlantic. Now, in her first stand-alone novel, the Edgar Award and John Creasey Award winner brings us an intelligent, engrossing drama of good and evil--once again showing how Laurie King breaks every rule to craft some of the most fascinating novels in crime fiction. Anne Waverly is a respected university professor. Few know that, eighteen years ago, her own unwitting act cost Anne her husband and seven-year-old daughter. Fewer still know that her past and her academic specialty--alternative religious movements--have made her a brilliant FBI operative. Four times she has infiltrated suspect communities, escaping her own memories of loss and carnage to find a measure of atonement. Now, as she begins to savor life once more, she has no intention of taking another assignment. Until, that is, she is given an envelope containing details of the Change group and its leaders, whose Arizona site houses over one hundred children and a school admired by even the local authorities. Outsiders have found these children, many of them rescued from abuse, healthy and content--but far too well-behaved.... Soon Anne--as the eager, pliable seeker Ana Wakefield--is on her way to the red cliffs and high desert air of the Change compound. As she explores its enigmatic mixture of mysticism, hierarchy, and trickery, she grows unexpectedly close to two abandoned children fostered by Change. Fourteen-year-old Jason Delgado is a tough, sexy, wary street kid; his timid, silent little sister Dulcie reminds Anne all too much of her own lost daughter. Slowly, she comes to see that this is no ordinary community and hers is no ordinary mission. For, far from appeasing the demons of her past, this assignment is sweeping her back into their clutches. InA Darker Place, King masterfully reinvents the novel of psychological suspense, creating a complex and iron-willed woman who, in searching for the truth among the darker places of her past, discovers her own redemption.
LC Classification NumberPS3561.I4813D3 1999
All listings for this product
Be the first to write a review
