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Thrown Away Child Paperback / softback - 2013
by Thomas Adcock
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A sentimental trip to New Orleans goes lethally awry in this Edgar Award winner's fifth novel starring NYPD Detective Neil Hockaday. With his new wife, black actress Ruby Flagg, Hock travels to the Land of Dreams to visit her family. But the homecoming is disrupted when Ruby's ex-con cousin is accused of mutilating a former cellmate and disappears.
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- Title Thrown Away Child
- Author Thomas Adcock
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Condition New
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Gallery Books
- Date 2013-08-10
- Bookseller's Inventory # B9781476763019
- ISBN 9781476763019 / 1476763011
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5 x 1.1 in (20.07 x 12.70 x 2.79 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
Set in New Orleans, the hometown of Hock's new wife, black actress Ruby Flagg, Thrown-Away Child is a pungent Creole stew of family secrets, sour politics, ritual murder, and bittersweet revenge. Hoping for respite from his hard-drinking past in Manhattan, Hock travels to the fabled Land of Dreams with Ruby to meet her close-knit family. Hardly have the newlyweds arrived when the peaceful home of Hock's mother-in-law, Violet, is disrupted by two racist cops hunting for Ruby's cousin Perry Duclat, who has been living with Violet since his mother abandoned him. Now this thrown-away child is a grown and troubled man, wanted for murder. The victim is Perry's former cellmate at Angola penitentiary, whose mutilated body has been branded with a bizarre acronym - MOMS. When Perry disappears, Hock teams up with a disenchanted New Orleans cop to conduct a highly unofficial Investigation. Before justice is finally done, there are more brutal murders - and more brandings. Among the slain: a little boy so alone in the world he can only guess at his name. Besides the terrible murders, Hock must resolve personal quandaries: the meaning of Ruby's unsettling emotions about returning to her southern roots, and his own future - if any - with the New York Police Department.