Gregory's game: Naomi Blake mysteries #9 / Jane A. Adams.

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Title:

Gregory's game: Naomi Blake mysteries #9 / Jane A. Adams.

Author:

Adams, Jane, 1960-

ISBN:

9780727883667

Edition:

First world edition.

Publication Information:

Surrey, England : Severn House Publishers, 2014.

Physical Description:

220 pages ; 23 cm.

Series:

Naomi Blake Mysteries #9

Abstract:

Ex-DI Alec Friedman is recovering from a car crash, while hired killer Gregory is contemplating retirement, but a brutal murder, and a seemingly meaningless kidnapping, drag them back into the game they were trying so hard to resist.

Subject Term:

Blake, Naomi (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Kidnapping -- Fiction.

Ex-police officers -- Fiction.

Blind women -- Fiction.

Genre:

Detective and mystery stories.

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Summary

Sometimes, just surviving is not enough. You have to know what to do with yourself once the crisis is over.

Ex-DI Alec Friedman is recovering from the car crash that almost killed him. Now back at home, with his wife Naomi, he feels as though he has lost something of himself. He may be alive, but he is hollowed out and empty.

Another man standing at the same crossroads is Gregory. Soldier, mercenary, hired killer, Gregory is contemplating retirement and struggling to find meaning in the idea.

Then a brutal murder, followed by the kidnap of a mother and child, drags Alec, Naomi and Gregory back into the game. Why was Anthony Palmer tortured and killed and what sort of kidnappers send no ransom demand and make no contact with the family of the victim? Whoever they are, they killed Palmer, and now the race is on to find Katherine and her baby before they too end up dead . . .

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

What happens to spies, hit men, and others of their ilk when the political balance of the world shifts? It's not easy for them to reinvent themselves, as shown in British author Adams's murky ninth mystery featuring blind former policewoman Naomi Blake (after 2013's Secrets). The torture murder of a man with no apparent history, found strung up in a cottage kitchen, and the subsequent kidnapping of a mother and child, bring assassin Gregory Hess back into contact with the mysterious Nathan Crow, art student Patrick, Naomi, and Naomi's husband, former Det. Insp. Alec Friedman. What links the principals is never clear, nor is the reason for so much trust between people on opposite sides of the law. After the kidnapping, a cop says that he finds nearly everyone connected to the case to be cold. Many readers will agree him. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

Prematurely retired police detectives Naomi Blake and Alec Friedman are consulted by both sides of the law when a man is found tortured and hanged in his Somerset house. Torturing someone for information isn't for amateurs. Who kept him alive long enough to get what they needed, and who hired them to do it? In addition to the initial murder, this ninth entry in the Naomi Blake series offers a kidnapping, more murder, and some espionage. Could Naomi and Alec's network of friends, sources, and former suspects hold the key to these seemingly dissimilar crimes? Naomi has had several years to adjust to life off the force after an accident caused her to lose her sight. Her husband, Alec, on the other hand, is still struggling to find new purpose while recovering from a car crash that killed an old family friend. Naomi and Alec's tangled web of colleagues and acquaintances make it difficult for those new to the series to jump in here, but fans will be eager to see how Blake and Friedman are faring.--Keefe, Karen Copyright 2010 Booklist