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Product Identifiers

PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

ISBN-100151013632

ISBN-139780151013630

eBay Product ID (ePID)59153359

Product Key Features

Book TitleGone to Ground

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Lgbt / Gay

Publication Year2008

GenreFiction

AuthorJohn Harvey

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0 in

Item Weight23.6 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2006-037390

ReviewsPRAISE FOR FLESH & BLOOD "A superb mystery—excruciatingly suspenseful, rich in character and all too real in its depiction of the horrific possibilities lurking in the margins of the mundane."— The Washington Post Book World PRAISE FOR ASH & BONE "Harvey's detectives . . . are the real deal—strong men who are sensitive enough to empathize with other people."— The New York Times Book Review, PRAISE FOR FLESH & BLOOD "A superb mystery--excruciatingly suspenseful, rich in character and all too real in its depiction of the horrific possibilities lurking in the margins of the mundane."-- The Washington Post Book World PRAISE FOR ASH & BONE "Harvey's detectives . . . are the real deal--strong men who are sensitive enough to empathize with other people."-- The New York Times Book Review, PRAISE FORFLESH & BLOOD "A superb mystery—excruciatingly suspenseful, rich in character and all too real in its depiction of the horrific possibilities lurking in the margins of the mundane."—The Washington Post Book World PRAISE FORASH & BONE "Harvey's detectives . . . are the real deal—strong men who are sensitive enough to empathize with other people."—The New York Times Book Review

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal823/.914

SynopsisWhen police detective Will Grayson and his partner, Helen Walker, investigate the violent death of Stephen Bryan, a gay academic, their first thoughts are of an ill-judged sexual encounter or a fatal lovers' quarrel: The man's face was like a glove that had been pulled inside out. But they soon shift focus to the book Bryan was writing about the life and mysterious death of fifties film star Stella Leonard. While Bryan's sister puts herself in danger by conducting her owninvestigation, Grayson and Walker peel away the secrets of a family blighted by a lust for wealth and power and by its perverted sexuality. On the heels of his critically acclaimed Frank Elder series, John Harvey delivers a page-turner both subtle and devastating., When police detective Will Grayson and his partner, Helen Walker, investigate the violent death of Stephen Bryan, a gay academic, their first thoughts are of an ill-judged sexual encounter or a fatal lovers' quarrel: The man's face was like a glove that had been pulled inside out. But they soon shift focus to the book Bryan was writing about the life and mysterious death of fifties film star Stella Leonard. While Bryan's sister puts herself in danger by conducting her own investigation, Grayson and Walker peel away the secrets of a family blighted by a lust for wealth and power and by its perverted sexuality. On the heels of his critically acclaimed Frank Elder series, John Harvey delivers a page-turner both subtle and devastating.

LC Classification NumberPR6058.A6989G66 2007