A Well-Known Secret
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Publisher Description
PI Terry Orr returns in this “complex, haunting story” of conspiracy and murder in post-9/11 New York from the acclaimed author of Closing Time (Publishers Weekly).
Still coping with the death his wife and infant son—and still obsessed with finding the madman who killed them—Terry Orr has kept busy raising his young daughter and working as a private investigator known for solving some of New York City’s most baffling cases.
Now, at the behest of his housekeeper, Terry is searching for one Sonia Salgado, recently released from prison after serving thirty years for murdering a diamond dealer. Unfortunately, when he finds the woman, she’s been murdered herself. Now Terry is determined to discover why. But someone else is determined to stop him no matter what . . .
In a mystery hailed as “a winner on all fronts,” Jim Fusilli pulls readers into the dark streets of a city dealing with the tragedy of September 11, and the mind of a man determined to find justice amid the chaos (Booklist, starred review).
A Well-Known Secret is the 2nd book in the Terry Orr Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Fusilli's second Terry Orr thriller, set two years after his outstanding debut, Closing Time (2001), is even better the writing more focused, the characters sharper, the plot less diffuse. Orr continues to struggle to accept the deaths of his wife and infant son, who were pushed under a subway train four years earlier and to search for the elusive madman he believes killed them. A writer turned private detective, he's still protective of his precocious daughter, 14-year-old Bella, although she seems the more resilient of the two in coping with tragedy, including the September 11 catastrophe close to their lower Manhattan home. Here, Orr's housekeeper asks him to find her friend Dorotea Salgado's estranged daughter, Sonia, recently released after 30 years in prison for robbery and murder. He discovers Sonia's beaten body and a conspiracy pointing back to the 1970s. As Orr peels the layers of deception, he uncovers at the core a corrupt police family and the complicity of Sonia's three childhood friends in her downfall. Orr's unwillingness to commit hampers his nascent romance with Assistant DA Julie Giada but, with Bella's encouragement, he manages by the book's end to conquer one paralyzing fear stemming from his family tragedy. Again, Fusilli's sense of place is stunning; a tangible, poetically evoked Manhattan infuses this complex, haunting story. FYI:Fusilli is a music critic for theWall Street Journal.
