Deadly Beloved
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4.4 • 7 Ratings
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
TILL DEATH DO US PART
Marcy Addwatter killed her husband – there’s no question about that. Shot him dead in the motel room where he was trysting with a blonde hooker. Shot the hooker, too.
But where the cops might see an open-and-shut case, private eye Michael Tree –Ms. Michael Tree – sees a conspiracy. For Ms. Tree, digging into it could mean digging her own grave... and digging up her own murdered husband's.
Based on the longest-running private-eye comic book series of all time, DEADLY BELOVED brings you an all-new adventure of the legendary Ms. Tree – the groundbreaking female P.I. who put the ‘graphic’ into graphic novel...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The wife of a prominent accounting firm executive has just been arrested for the murder of her husband and his afternoon pay-per-playmate, but the Chicago PD have their doubts about the open-and-shut case. It's up to longtime Collins heroine, Ms. Tree, the sexy brunette PI star of his graphic novel series, to clear the forest of red herrings and uncover the conspiracy beneath; of course, her tricky investigation is soon beset by deadly antagonists. Tree slips effortlessly into her first all-prose incarnation, though "graphic" is not an inaccurate description for this exceptional novel: "Mike was sprawled on his back... his bare chest puckered with entry wounds and blood pooling beneath him, glistening with neon reflection." A psychiatrist Tree seeks out (for help with recurring nightmares) provides a framing device that keeps her complex tale unspooling smoothly, and Collins skillfully ties up a multitude of branches into the big, bloody bouquet one would expect from the author of The Road to Perdition. Sharp and satisfying, this is another must-have for fans of the Hard Case Crime imprint.
Customer Reviews
A sweet trip down memory lane
Back in the early 80's, Ms. Tree was my first exposure to Mr. Collins' work (when he and Terry Beatty chronicled her adventures in the pages of Eclipse Magazine) and it was great catching up with her in the pages of this book. Ms. Tree was my gateway to the author's prose works, featuring characters such as Mallory, Nolan, and my two favorites, Heller and Quarry, and for that I'll always be grateful.
This book reads well as a standalone story (there's no need to know the history of the characters, all of the high points are brought forward as needed in the book) and the only regret I had after finishing this book was the lack of a dozen or so sequels.
I'm not quite ready to dig out my old Duran Duran LPs, but I am sorely tempted to start searching my comics collection for copies of her previous exploits.