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Books : The Mortal Groove (Jane Lawless Mysteries) |
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List Price: $25.95Amazon.com's Price: $17.13 You Save: $8.82 (34%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780312349455
ISBN: 0312349459
Label: St. Martin's Minotaur
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Minotaur
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: December 10, 2007
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Release Date: December 10, 2007
Sales Rank: 559733
Studio: St. Martin's Minotaur
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Product Description:
Minneapolis restaurateur and amateur sleuth Jane Lawless is in the middle of ringing in the New Year the best way she knows how—with her family, friends, and some excellent champagne—when the biggest financial backers in Minnesota politics break up the party with a little backroom proposition for her father: How’d he like to be the state’s next governor?
Flattered, Ray Lawless, a retired defense attorney, agrees to run, and the latecomer’s sprint to the state capital is going great until reporters and opponents start digging up the kind of dirt that is more valuable than gold out on the campaign trail. He and his family are fair game, but worse than that, so are the men running his campaign. Their secrets, involving the mysterious death of a young woman, have been buried since the summer they all came home from Vietnam. Unfortunately for Jane and her father, those secrets won’t stay that way for long.
The Mortal Groove, the newest addition to Lambda and Minnesota Book Award--winning author Ellen Hart’s multilayered Jane Lawless series, is a haunting tale of dark secrets that is sure to satisfy.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Vietnam vets with PTSD, long distance relationships, a good-hearted brother searching for his wife's daughter, and politics
All of these topics weave together nicely in the Mortal Groove. I can't wait to read more of the Jane Lawless series by Ellen Hart. Ellen Hart knows her Minnesota culture and isn't afraid to use it. This enhances the believability of the plot. The main character, Jane Lawless, is very likeable, as is her significant other, Kenzie. You are rooting for them to work out their long distance relationship. As weird as Cordelia is, you still see how much she cares for both her best friend, Jane, and her ... Read More
Rating: - Another Great Mystery in a Great Series
In Ellen Hart's latest Jane Lawless mystery secrets from the Vietnam War combine with family secrets in the present to create a suspenseful novel that skillfully weaves several storylines into one entertaining novel. On New Year's Eve, restaurateur Jane Lawless is busy managing her long distance relationship with her girlfriend while comforting her best friend Cordelia Thorn after her flighty and narcissistic sister (who is even more self-centered than Cordelia) reclaimed her daughter Hattie and ... Read More
Rating:  - Family relationships at the fore
Dandy, just dandy. I know this author quite well and I am fond of her. Some of you who read this will be aware that she and I tour together frequently as part of the Minnesota Crime Wave.
This is a terrific novel which may disturb some of Hart's long-standing fans. It's a darker, more disturbing novel than she's penned before, reacting, I suspect, to the state of the world today. But this novel is no polemic . Mortal Groove, with roots in the Viet Nam conflict, examines once again ... Read More
Rating: - Couldn't stop readiing!
This is the best Jane Lawless mystery so far. I know I've said this before
but Ellen Hart just seems to get better and better. I don't quite understand
what one of the other reviewers meant when she said that the point of the
book was that sexual preference wasn't important when you were in a fox
hole. There's nothing in the book about that! It's about three guys who
return from war, and how what they've seen and done leads to a tragic outcome.
Jane's brother, ... Read More
Rating: - interesting political whodunit
In Minnesota, Ray Lawless is considering a run for governor. His family, especially his daughter lesbian restaurateur Jane Lawless encourages him. As she and the rest of the relatives actively get involved, Ray realizes his chances of winning are good.
However, the media begins sniffing into the past of the Lawless brood and his key staffers. Reporter Melanie Gunderson especially looks at a cold case homicide that has ties to Ray's prime workers. Shockingly someone viciously assaults ... Read More
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