- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Orion; New Ed edition (4 April 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0752843338
- ISBN-13: 978-0752843339
- Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 2.6 x 17.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 308,611 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Tami Hoag's new police procedural thriller Dust to Dust is intelligent about the canteen culture of machismo and taking care of our own, and about the human cost of that. Smart, honest Minneapolis cops like Sam Kovac and his woman partner Tinks Liska have learned to weigh these two together. The duo persists in investigating the death of Andy Paxton, a gay police officer, which everyone, especially the head honchos, wants closed as soon as possible.
Before Andy died he was investigating the death of another gay cop, and suspected a cover-up. His father was crippled in the shootout that made the reputation of the Twin Cities' favourite media cop. Someone is threatening Tinks' children; and Kovac finds himself in love with Amanda, Andy's tough boss and about the least popular policewoman in town.
This is an ingenious character-driven book which works through an intelligent use of misdirection and some fair-minded games with forensic evidence. Kovac, whose hero-worship of the man Mike Fallon used to be, does not stop him thinking as a passionate detective who never forgets that the victim is his boss, not the rules or police culture. --Roz Kaveney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A suspicious death - and someone wants the truth left dead and buried...
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have to admitt that the book isnt very intersting in the first couple of hundred pages. sometimes long pages about who's gay and who's not and who had HIV and who doesnt and why really do get tiresome but the last 50 pages are worth their weight in gold (and much more if you ask me!) in these last pages there are twists in each chapter. It has a great ending! I love that book, on of Hoag's best (together with a thin dark line and ashes to ashes)
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is the sixth book I have read by Tami Hoag and I can honestly say that she has never disappointed me. While others in this genre are known to give away endings before the middle of the book and make sure that their storylines are current with what other more popular writers are doing, Hoag always stands above all others in plot twists and unique scenarios. If she isn't already involved in teaching writing classes, she should be.
In this episode, some of the characters we first met in Ashes to Ashes return to solve the mystery of who killed Andy Fallon -- an Internal Affairs cop. He is found hanging in his apartment with the words "I'm Sorry" written on the mirror. To complicate matters even more, Andy is gay and is the son of Iron Mike Fallon, a former cop who is now disabled and is still well-respected by the force. Sam Kovaks and his partner Nikki Liska are in charge of the case which, for all intents and purposes, is being deemed a suicide or accident. Sam and Nikki, however, have their doubts.
While everyone else is willing to certify this as an accident, the two homicide detectives won't give up. Hoag is noted for writing about main characters who are tenacious in spite of what the opposing factions are throwing their way. In this book, they are ordered to leave this one alone, agree that it was an accident and move on. You know right away that this isn't going to happen. There are a number of other characters who immediately become suspects in the reader's eyes and just when you've nailed it down, Hoag throws you another bone.
There are other background stories to contend with which will keep the reader turning the pages. What were the true circumstances surrounding Iron Mike's disability? Did Andy's being gay have anything to do with his death? Does anyone have any respect for Internal Affairs cops?
As with all of Hoag's other books, I found this one riveting. I also very much enjoy the location of Minnesota as the setting. I don't live there but I appreciate the trips that the characters take to the Mall of America as well as the colder than cold descriptions of the Minnesota winters. We've now had Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust. Can't wait for Dark Horses....
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I've read almost all of Tami Hoag's books and this is one of her best (although I still rate Ashes to Ashes as my favorite). It'll keep you interested until the end and it will also keep you guessing as to 'who dunne it' - towards the end of the book you may think you've got it all worked out but Ms Hoag will have you fooled up until the final few pages. Interesting storyline involving the (at first look) suicide of a gay member of the Police Internal Affairs team and the reprocussions that this has on his family and collegues - all made the more interesting by the detirmination of one of the main charecters not to allow the incident to be swept under the carpet as his chiefs would like and the then proof that this was no suicide but murder. The charecters are easy to get to know (and involved with)- you soon get to know who your favorites are - and who aren't!. If you've not read any Tami Hoag before this is a very good introduction.
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cant get into the story
I dont really know what to say about this book.
I only read a couple of chapters i just couldnt get into it. Read more
I only read a couple of chapters i just couldnt get into it. Read more
Published on 20 Sep 2007 by L. Thomas
Twist's and Turns
This book had me pretty much from the beginning, from the way she described what it felt like to be hung, and the way she jumped from killer to cop. Read more
Published on 31 Oct 2002
A disappointment, a let down really.
OK. Ashes to Ashes inspired me to buy all of the series. Anyway I waited patiently for Dust to Dust and gave up half way through. Read more
Published on 5 April 2001 by J. Adams
As good as Ashes to Ashes.
I found this book as wonderful as Ashes to Ashes to Ashes, even though in many aspects they are completely different. Read more
Published on 30 Mar 2001
Intelligent Adult Thriller
The highest praise I can give this book is to say that is as good as the best of Michael Connellys work. Read more
Published on 6 Feb 2001
not up to tami hoags usually very high standard
having read all of tami hoags previous novels and found them all very very good i had looked forward to dust to dust very much. Read more
Published on 28 Jan 2001
Great read
This is an intelligent character driven plot that had me turning pages well into the night. This is my first Hoag book and I will have find the others. Read more
Published on 3 Oct 2000
Brilliant read. I've not been dissapionted so far
Ashes to Ashes was my first Tami Hoag novel,then Still Waters. Like most readers who have got hooked on a certain author but then felt let down because apart from the characters... Read more
Published on 30 Sep 2000 by martin.king@uk.nufarm.com
Tense, taut, fast, funny......
These are all cliche words but if there's one thing which doesn't seem to happen in Tami Hoag's book, it's a cliche. Read more
Published on 15 Sep 2000 by stugar@zoom.co.uk
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