Synopsis
When realtor Sydney Teague discovers her friend Crystal has been murdered, she suspects a link between the Charlotte, North Carolina real estate market and a series of unexplained crimes in the area.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1998-02-01 |
| Size | | Height: | 7.3 in | | Width: | 4.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 5.6 oz |
Publisher's Note
Introducing Sydney Teague: A Southern adwoman caught in a campaign of murder...Sydney Teague has it all together--barely. A single mother, the owner of an advertising agency, shes a woman with one foot in the Old South, and the other firmly planted in the new. But while Sydney grows her business, meets the needs of her two children, and lives life one day at a time, an old friend hasnt been so lucky. Sydneys hard-loving, hard-living friend, Crystal, is dead, and Sydney wants to know why.The answer is not coming from the police--not even from a handsome cop who shows more than a professional interest in Sydney. Instead, Sydney discovers that Crystals brutal death is part of an even more shocking crime spree--and that some of the clues lie in the steamy city of Charlotte's golden real estate market. Even worse: Someone Sydney knows all too well may be holding the key to a case of multiple murder....
Sydney Teague is keeping it together one day at a time, building her real estate business and raising her town children alone. Her hard-loving, hard-living friend Crystal hasn't been so lucky. When Crystal is brutally murdered, Sydney discovers her death is part of a shocking crime spree that is spreading throughout Charlotte, North Carolina's golden real estate market.
Industry Reviews
In addition to keeping her low-power advertising agency afloat, Sydney Teague copes with sole responsibility for two incredibly well-adjusted teenagers, Alcoholics Anonymous meetings she dare not miss, and an old beau handily, a policeman chasing her, ostensibly for a game of tennis. Through one of Sydney's real-estate clients, a thief-rapist-murderer has gained access to supposedly secure locks in homes listed on the market in Raleigh, N.C. Extremely literate brief musings by the perp as each crime occurs point up the dark side of bland and smiling suburbia. A super ending tops off this series debut, which, if it lacks something of the regional atmosphere, does introduce a likable narrator with a serviceable sense of humor and a great deal going on in her life besides crime. (Feb.)
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