- Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Dell Publishing Company (Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0553586394
- ISBN-13: 978-0553586398
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.7 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,457,832 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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SEX, LIES, AND MURDER
Trade Ellis's high-country Vaca Grande ranch is just a car ride away from a world that couldn't be more different—a city of flash and glitter, poverty and hurt. Trade is happy making her living with Brahman cattle, but an occasional P.I. case in Tucson offers her good cash, a little adventure, and sometimes a date or two. Now she's been hired by an artist whose specialty is creepy paintings of wounded dolls. And this case will offer a little too much of everything: too much sex, secrecy, and murder. Trade's client is the sister of a local news anchor who has gone missing—after getting inside information on the slaying of a musician with a hidden life in a sex cult. Soon Trade finds her way into one of the cult's underground orgies, a scene that shakes and stains her part-Apache soul. Suddenly, to find the missing woman, Trade Ellis must not only match wits with a savage criminal, she must duel with demons—the kind that haunt…the kind that hurt…the kind that kill.
Trade Ellis's high-country Vaca Grande ranch is just a car ride away from a world that couldn't be more different—a city of flash and glitter, poverty and hurt. Trade is happy making her living with Brahman cattle, but an occasional P.I. case in Tucson offers her good cash, a little adventure, and sometimes a date or two. Now she's been hired by an artist whose specialty is creepy paintings of wounded dolls. And this case will offer a little too much of everything: too much sex, secrecy, and murder. Trade's client is the sister of a local news anchor who has gone missing—after getting inside information on the slaying of a musician with a hidden life in a sex cult. Soon Trade finds her way into one of the cult's underground orgies, a scene that shakes and stains her part-Apache soul. Suddenly, to find the missing woman, Trade Ellis must not only match wits with a savage criminal, she must duel with demons—the kind that haunt…the kind that hurt…the kind that kill.
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is the final book in the series and I enjoyed it, probably not as much as the others, as it takes a darker line with the story. It's a shame that the series ended with this one - there is the hint at the end of the book that a new mystery was in progress but alas we will have to carry on without knowing what that was.
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TRAGEDY ANN is a superlative who-done-it.
1 Oct 2003
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The Vaca Grande Ranch outside Tucson is Trade Ellis' first love but to add income to the family coffers she occasionally works as a private investigator. One day she watches her cousin Bea a news anchor for channel four on TV when the co-anchor, Terez Montiel reports that the Cordelia Jones death may connect to a kinky sex cult.
Soon after that telecast, a woman hires Trade to find her sister who has gone missing. The client is Ann Aldridge and her beloved younger sister is Terez Montiel. Through intensive research, Trade discovers that the missing woman was investigating a local sex cult the Kiva club. Trade manages to spy on one of their meetings, but what she sees sickens her. Still despite local and national authorities telling her to back off, Trade is determined to find the missing anchorwoman.
Sinclair Browning has written a very gritty and realistic urban noir crime thriller starring a protagonist it is impossible not to like. She is tough, independent and refuses to give up until she solves the case to her satisfaction. She is fascinating to watch, gathering and assembling the pieces of the puzzle and then struggling to make them fit into a comprehensible picture that will give her the answers to solve the case. TRAGEDY ANN is a superlative who-done-it.
Harriet Klausner
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