The Parting Glass
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
While on Injured on Duty status, Lauren Riley’s hired as a private investigator to travel to rural Ireland in search of a Picasso painting stolen twenty years earlier in this nerve-shredding thriller.
An old wound forces Cold Case Detective Lauren Riley onto Injured on Duty leave. Unless she rests she faces the threat of early retirement. However, dreading the prospect of doing nothing for six months, Lauren renews her private investigator license.
She’s soon contacted by Sharon Whitney, the ex-wife of wealthy Buffalo resident – and suspected mob boss – Howard Whitney. During their bitter divorce twenty years earlier a Picasso painting was stolen from their home and never recovered. After the main suspect passes away from ill health in Ireland, Sharon hires Lauren to locate the painting – before her ex-husband does.
Lauren expects a low-stress, fact-finding trip yet arrives in Ireland to discover suspicions around the suspect’s death and his home ransacked. With the clock ticking, uncovering the truth behind the painting’s disappearance may be far more dangerous than Lauren imagined.
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While on forced medical leave from the Buffalo, N.Y., PD, Lauren Riley renews her PI license in Redmond's strong fifth outing for the cold case detective (after 2020's A Full Cold Moon). Lauren is immediately contacted by socialite Sharon Whitney, whose prized Picasso was stolen in a home burglary 20 years earlier. Convinced her recently deceased retired handyman, Jimmy Breen, was the culprit, Sharon sends Lauren and Lauren's partner, Shane Reese, to Jimmy's home, which Sharon has purchased, in Keelnamara, Ireland, to search for the missing painting. It turns out everyone in the village is keeping secrets about Jimmy and the painting, giving Lauren and Shane plenty of suspicious people to investigate. Meanwhile, an ex-policeman, who was hired by Sharon's former husband, has been secretly tracking them. The discovery that Jimmy was murdered raises the stakes, and the detectives realize they can trust no one, not even the local garda. This engrossing procedural builds to an unexpected outcome. Redmond reliably entertains.
