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Out of the Blues

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Out of the Blues

By: Trudy Nan Boyce
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
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“A fresh, gritty debut. Boyce unveils one of the best new series characters in ages... A book that combines fast-paced suspense with moving insights.” (Number-one New York Times best-selling author Lisa Gardner)

From an author with more than 30 years' experience in the Atlanta Police Department comes a riveting procedural debut introducing an unforgettable heroine.

On her first day as a newly minted homicide detective, Sarah "Salt" Alt is given the cold-case murder of a blues musician whose death was originally ruled an accidental drug overdose. Now new evidence has come to light that he may have been given a hot dose intentionally. And this evidence comes from a convicted felon hoping to trade his knowledge for shortened prison time...a man who Salt herself put behind bars.

In a search that will take her into the depths of Atlanta's buried wounds - among the city's homeless, its politically powerful churches, commerce and industry, and the police department itself - Salt probes her way toward the truth in a case that has more at stake than she ever could have imagined.

At once a vivid procedural and a penetrating examination of what it means to be cop, Out of the Blues is a remarkable crime debut.

©2016 Trudy Nan Boyce (P)2016 Penguin Audio
Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Thriller Exciting Cold Case City
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“What's this? A female cop who doesn't look like a runway model and doesn't go mano a mano with psychotic killers? Trudy Nan Boyce may be a first-time author, but she was in law enforcement for more than 30 years, which should explain why the stationhouse personnel and forensic details in Out of the Blues feel so authentic.” (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review)

“Exceptional...I figured authenticity would thrum from the dialogue, reality would pulse from the plot and the blues would be the narrative’s soundtrack. I was correct on all counts.” (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)

Out of the Blues introduces an appealing character, Detective Sarah Alt [“Salt”].... Atlanta locales and history are a recurring element in the narrative and a pleasant feature of the book [and] Boyce describes these places with colorful clarity.... Salt’s next sleuthing adventure should be much anticipated.” (Associated Press)

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If you enjoy a thoughtful story with interesting characters and some history laid over the frame of a mystery, you'll enjoy this. If Laura Lippman's style appeals then you'll enjoy this. If you're interested in the Blues along with a good story, then try this one. I enjoyed it very much!

If you like Laura Lippman choose this

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Story is very slow and boring. Way too much dialogue that is not interesting. The spacing between significant moments of action, discovery or romance is too long and I lose interest

This is a snooze.

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Took way too long to get to any kind of point (3, count 'em, 3 separate dream sequences in the first few chapters alone - space wasters in my opinion), and once the point sort of began to swim into view, I found I didn't care. Rebecca Lowman is one of my favorite narrators ( the reason I tried this book in the first place), but even she couldn't save this for me.

Slooooow

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