Crossed
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.20 (525 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 162639377X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Wonderful, Remarkable Debut" according to SusanLa. Wow! Amazing debut novel; obviously, I hope many more are on the way! This is not your normal lesbian fare; it is much deeper, the characters more complex. The mystery is very well done, but the strength of the story is in the way Luce must confront her past and all the emotions she has buried about long-ago events as she realizes how dramatically those events restrict her present life. Her past and present dovetail beautifully in this remarkable book.. Crystal Cross said There's even a beautiful love story or two tucked in there. Crossed is a debut novel, but you wouldn't know from reading it. The writing is strong and assured, the mystery is rich and complicated, the emotions and drama is explored in depth, the pacing is brisk and the resolutions are logical but real-life messy. There's even a beautiful love story or two tucked in there.Detective Luce Hansen gets a dream assignment that will do wonders for her career--investigating a series of gruesome killings in a small town. But instead of enthusiasm, she approaches it with d. A chilling tale of a twisted mind QUEERcentric Books Reviewed by Jay Chase for QUEERcentric BooksCrossed by Meredith Doench is a chilling tale of a twisted mind. Agent Luce Hansen returns to her hometown to solve a case of a serial killer who is apparently targeting lesbians and posing their bodies as works of art.Luce has been hoping to get a case of this kind to advance her career. The problem is that it takes her back to the scene of the crime, where her first true love, Marci, was murdered. The similarities between that case and the recent homicides hi
She teaches writing and literature at a university in southern Ohio. Crossed is her first novel. About the AuthorMeredith Doench’s short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in literary journals such as Hayden’s Ferry Review, Women's Studies Quarterly, and Gertrude. She earned a Ph.D. in creative writing from Texas Tech University and served as a fiction editor at Camera Obscura: Journal of Literature and Photography
She teaches writing and literature at a university in southern Ohio. Meredith Doench’s short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in literary journals such as Hayden’s Ferry Review, Women's Studies Quarterly, and Gertrude. Crossed is her first novel. She earned a Ph.D. in creative writing from Texas Tech University and se
It’s the case she’s been waiting for, the case that compels her to return to the small town she turned her back on nineteen years ago, the case she plans to ride from the Ohio BCI all the way to the FBI.The case worth risking her shaky relationship with her lover, Rowan. When the past crosses the present, will Luce lose everything she’s worked so hard to build?. But the horrors of the case recall the unsolved murder of Luce’s first girlfriend, and Luce is forced to confront the local ex-gay ministry that haunted her youth. Agent Luce Hansen returns home to Willow’s Ridge to catch a serial killer who has been murdering young women