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Deadly Beloved
Deadly Beloved
Deadly Beloved
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Deadly Beloved

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A gated Philadelphia suburb is home to a shocking murder in this mystery featuring Armenian-American ex-FBI agent Gregor Demarkian.
 Fox Run Hill is the kind of place that men move to with their second wives, but Patsy MacLaren Willis has been married to Stephen, her first husband, for twenty-two years. Though outwardly happy, Patsy feels disconnected, hating their empty life. To wrench herself free, she shoots Stephen three times and leaves him dead in their bed. Calmly, she drives away and disappears. While investigating the case, former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian finds that every wife in Fox Run Hill has good reason to kill her husband—except for Patsy. It’s well-known that suburbanites lead lives of quiet desperation, but the families in Fox Run Hill are more desperate than any Demarkian has ever seen.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 5, 2013
ISBN9781453294543
Deadly Beloved
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Jane Haddam

Jane Haddam (1951–2019) was 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. This mystery introduced Patience McKenna, a sleuthing scribe who would go on to appear in four more books, including Wicked, Loving Murder (1985) and Rich, Radiant Slaughter (1988).   Not a Creature Was Stirring (1990) introduced Haddam’s best-known character, former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian. The series spans more than twenty novels, many of them holiday-themed, including Murder Superior (1993), Fountain of Death (1995), and Wanting Sheila Dead (2005). Haddam’s later novels include Blood in the Water (2012) and Hearts of Sand (2013).

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    This volume has one of the best plots in the series. A woman in a suburban gated Philadelphia development murders her husband and disappears. Her car is blown up in a parking lot later the same day. Haddam goes into the lives of her neighbors and her old friends from Vassar.Good read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Far more of the usual police proccedural than has been the case with several of the earlier books in the Gregor Demarkian series. In this one, the preparations for Donna Moradanyan's wedding are about to consume Philadelphia's Cavanaugh St--almost literally. Slowly but surely, every available surface is being covered by white and silver wedding decorations, sparing only the street and sidewalks themselves. As usual, Haddam provides a light-hearted, affectionate look at life in the Armenian-American community of Cavanaugh St.But the comic touch so evident in previous books is missing from the main plot in this one. Here it's a straightforward investigation of 3 murders involving pipe bombs and a vanished wife. The plot is well done.All the old favorite denizens of Cavanaugh Street are back and are as quirky as ever. The first real hint surfaces that Gregor and Bennis might progress beyond just "friends".

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Deadly Beloved - Jane Haddam

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