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Briarpatch

Ross Thomas

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#1120 of 8,085 books · #305 in Crime & Thriller

Won the Edgar Award for Best Novel (1985).

Briarpatch won the Edgar Award. A long-distance call from his small Texas hometown on his birthday gives Benjamin Dill the news that his sister Felicity—born on the same day exactly ten years later—has died in a car bomb explosion. She was a homicide detective who had perhaps made one enemy too many over the course of her career. Unwilling to let local law enforcement handle the investigation, Dill, a consultant for a Senate subcommittee, arrives in town from DC that night to begin his dogged search for his sister's killer. What he finds is no surprise to him as he begins to unravel town secrets, because Benjamin Dill is never surprised at what awful things people will do.

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Publisher
Macmillan + ORM
ISBN-13
9781429981651
Topics
Murder investigationFamily loss and revengeSmall town secrets

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