Then she makes the acquaintance of Remmy’s mother, a foul-mouthed old woman with an impressive beard. and maybe even the Widest!įirst Mindy meets Remmy’s half-brother, Buell Rabinowitz, surely the world’s only one-legged, albino, Jewish African American. Mindy has braved the oppressive August heat in search of Remmy Rothstein, who they call “The Cajun Jew.” If the photos are indeed accurate, she might be about to certify Remmy as the World Record Holder for Longest Tongue in the World. But they’re no match for the Swampers of the Georgia bayou. Her mother was right: She won’t end up like her-and she’ll do anything to prove it.Īs an intrepid adjudicator of World Records, Mindy Patel has met lots of strange people in lots of strange places. But there’s a lot more to being a woman than fixing dinner and doing the wash.
Now, her father tells her, she’s the woman of the house, and she must do all the necessary things the woman must do: the cleaning, the cooking, the laundry. Her mother, with two menial jobs cleaning restrooms and working nights at the laundry, had been just thirty years old.Ī week before she died, noticing her daughter getting attention from a boy, the girl’s mother warned her not to make the same mistakes she did. Her father is a long-haul trucker, away for weeks, sometimes months, at a time.
In a border town between Georgia and Alabama, in a three-room house made of cement block, a fourteen-year-old girl watches her mother die. And suddenly Charlie is in deeper trouble than he could have possibly imagined. But with one twist of a knife, the unthinkable happens. So long as Charlie doesn’t cross his business partner.
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The next day, that man walks into the dealership, drives out in a new car, and Charlie gets a fat envelope full of cash. In the suit pocket is the name of a very important man. The arrangement is simple: Charlie picks up a suit from the dry cleaner’s. Who could really blame him for wanting a little extra? And now a lot of people depend on Charlie: by his last count, sixty-eight employees at his Atlanta auto dealership, eleven shiftless brothers and sisters, an ungrateful wife, a spoiled daughter, a shameless girlfriend. Growing up dirt poor, Charlie Lam worked his ass off to make something of himself, no thanks to his deadbeat father or his long-suffering mother. From the hallucinatory noir novella Go Deep to the twisted short stories “Necessary Women” and “Remmy Rothstein Toes the Line,” this collection showcases the New York Times bestselling author’s dark humor, limitless imagination, and masterly command of voice and character. This genre-bending eBook bundle proves that not only is Karin Slaughter “one of the best crime novelists in America” ( The Washington Post), she’s one of today’s very best writers, period. Relentlessly suspenseful and furiously paced, peopled with conflicted, fallible characters who leap from the page, The Kept Woman is a seamless blend of twisty police procedural and ingenious psychological thriller - a searing, unforgettable novel of love, loss, and redemption. and the consequences will tear through his life with the force of a tornado, wreaking havoc for Will and everyone around him, including his colleagues, family, friends-and even the suspects he pursues. Evidence soon links Will’s troubled past to the case. Will is already compromised, because the site belongs to the city’s most popular citizen: a wealthy, powerful, and politically connected athlete protected by the world’s most expensive lawyers-a man who’s already gotten away with rape, despite Will’s exhaustive efforts to put him away.īut the worst is yet to come. and who will die soon if she isn’t found. Sure enough, bloody footprints leading away from the scene indicate there is another victim-a woman-who has vanished. Studying the body, Sara Linton-the GBI’s newest medical examiner and Will’s lover-realizes that the extensive blood loss didn't belong to the corpse. With the discovery of a murder at an abandoned construction site, Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is brought in on a case that becomes much more dangerous when the dead man is identified as an ex-cop. The author of Pretty Girls returns with an electrifying, emotionally complex thriller that plunges its fascinating protagonist into the darkest depths of a mystery that just might destroy him.
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