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Published Aug 2011
400 pages
Genre: Mysteries
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Twelve years ago, Chester Morton disappeared from his hometown in Mattuck, New York, leaving no trace and never to be heard from again. For the past twelve years, his mother has kept the search for her son alive - paying for a billboard overlooking the local community college, putting up new flyers every week, hounding every law enforcement agency she can get to listen. Her determination has made his disappearance very high profile but it's also been damaging to her family, her children, and to herself.
Now, Chester's body is finally found - hanging from the very billboard that has been advertising his disappearance. Chester's corpse, however, is recent - meaning that Chester had been alive, somewhere, until very recently. Under pressure and with limited resources, the local police turn to Gregor Demarkian - a former FBI agent and a frequent consultant on such cases - to try and unravel the truth buried within this very complex and tragic case and find out once and for all what really happened all those years ago.
"Starred Review. While the plot itself isn't one of Haddam's twistiest, the re-creation of the fishbowl that is small town life is pitch-perfect and shaded by a chilling glimpse of human darkness." - Publisher Weekly
"Starred Review. [L]ike each of its predecessors, [Flowering Judas] works just fine as a stand-alone... Gregor is such a well-drawn character that readers... will feel like they've known him for years. Rarely is a mystery series as consistently excellent as this one." - Booklist
"Will work for those who favor overlooked clues planted in plain sight and great detective summations." - Kirkus Reviews
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Jane Haddam (b. 1951) is an American author of mysteries. Born Orania Papazoglou, she worked as a college professor and magazine editor before publishing her Edgar Award-nominated first novel, Sweet, Savage Death, in 1984. Not a Creature Was Stirring (1990) introduced Haddam's best-known character, former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian, a series that spans more than twenty novels.
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