Blue Place
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
A police lieutenant with the elite "Red Dogs" until she retired at twenty-nine , Aud Torvigen is a rangy six-footer with eyes the color of cement and a tendency to hurt people who get in her way. Born in Norway into the failed marriage between a Scandinavian diplomat and an American businessman, she now makes Atlanta her home, luxuriating in the lush heat and brashness of the New South. She glides easily between the world of silken elegance and that of sleaze and sudden savagery, equally at home in both; functional, deadly, and temporarily quiescent, like a folded razor.
On a humid April evening between storms, out walking just to stay sharp, she turns a corner and collides with a running woman, Catching the scent of clean, rain-soaked hair, Aud nods and silently tells the stranger Today, you are lucky, and moves on—when behind her house explodes, incinerating its sole occupant, a renowned art historian. When Aud turns back, the woman is gone.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A double Lambda Literary Award winner and recipient of a Tiptree and the Nebula for her two SF novels (Ammonite and Slow River), Griffith switches genres and breathes life into an appealing heroine in this smoothly plotted pulse-slammer. Former undercover cop Aud Torvingen, a young Norwegian woman living in Atlanta, is an expert in self-defense and firearms, obsessed with the adrenaline-charged state she calls the "blue place." Only danger makes her feel alive; emotionally, she remains untouched. That changes during a late-night walk when she collides with multilayered trouble in the person of art broker Julia Lyons-Bennett, who happens to be running from the home of art appraiser Jim Lusk moments before a bomb levels it. Julia refuses to believe that she was the intended victim or that the bombing was drug-related, and she hires Aud to investigate. When the trail leads to a money-laundering, double-dealing banker, Aud believes Julia is out of danger but agrees to join her as translator and protector on a business trip to Norway. In Oslo, a resistant Aud gradually opens her heart to this blue-eyed beauty, and during their holiday trip to the fjords she realizes the depth of the passion that links them. But new love has a way of dulling the senses, and when Julia returns alone to Oslo for a day's business, Aud suddenly smells the danger they've been in all along and summons every bit of strength from her "blue place" to win a compelling race to save the woman she loves. Readers will want to see more of Aud Torvingen. FYI: Like her protagonist, Griffith is an expert in women's self-defense.
