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Title details for Flowering Judas by Jane Haddam - Available

Flowering Judas

by Jane Haddam
David Colacci
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Twelve years ago, Chester Morton disappeared from his hometown in New York, leaving no trace and never to be heard from again. For the past twelve years, his mother has kept the search for her son alive by hounding every law enforcement agency she can get to listen. Now, Chester's body is finally found - hanging from the very billboard that has been advertising his disappearance. Chester's corpse, however, is recent. Under pressure and with limited resources, the local police turn to Gregor Demarkian - a former FBI agent and a frequent consultant on such cases - to try and unravel the truth buried within this very complex and tragic case and find out once and for all what really happened all those years ago.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Gregor Demarkian

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    October 18, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781666591620
      • File size: 360967 KB
      • Duration: 12:32:00

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      FLOWERING JUDAS immediately grabs listeners with narrator David Colacci's achingly painful rendition of a grieving mother whose son disappeared 12 years earlier. Unable to let go, she still posts flyers around the community in the hope of finding her son, Chester. When his body is finally discovered, hanging from a town billboard, Former FBI Agent Gregor Demarkian is called in to help local police investigate. Law enforcement is stumped because Chester was only recently killed. Where had he been for 12 years? Colacci propels the story forward with briskly paced portrayals of diverse and timely characters, such as a college instructor who is living in her car. Despite Colacci's expert performance of Haddam's realistic dialogue, some listeners may wonder what happened to the neglected plot. J.T. (c) AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from June 13, 2011
      Rather than present a variety of characters with reason to want the eventual murder victim dead as she's done in recent books in this series, Edgar-finalist Haddam immediately presents the reader with a corpse in her stellar 26th mystery featuring PI Gregor Demarkian (after 2010's Wanting Sheila Dead). The body of Chester Morton, a long-missing college student, turns up in Mattatuck, N.Y., hanging from a billboard bearing his image and a request for information, part of his mother's frantic attempt to learn his fate. Called in to consult by the local police chief, Demarkian soon spots some anomalies that suggest that Morton didn't die where he was found. The discovery nearby of a backpack containing an infant's skeleton only adds to the puzzle. While the plot itself isn't one of Haddam's twistiest, the re-creation of the fishbowl that is smalltown life is pitch-perfect and shaded by a chilling glimpse of human darkness.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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