TITLE: Southern Cross (Brazil/Hammer No. 2) (BCE)  

AUTHOR: Cornwell, Patricia  

PUBLISHER: Putnam, 

Date: 1998  

ISBN: 9780399144653  

FORMAT: Hardcover, 280 pages  

EDITION: First Book Club Edition  

PRINTING [if applicable]: 1st Printing (No Later Stated)  

BOOK CONDITION: Very Good+ 

JACKET CONDITION: Very Good+   

DIMENSIONS (if available): 8.50 x 5.50 x 1.00 in. approx.   

KEYWORDS: Patricia Cornwell, Southern Cross, Andy Brazil, Judy Hammer,   

DESCRIPTION: From the dustjacket flap:

The nation's premier crime writer, author of the number-one New York Times bestseller Hornet's Nest, again casts her shrewd and knowing eye at the beleaguered, stormy center of a big-city police force.

Patricia Cornwell has a sixth sense about the men and women in blue. In Hornet's Nest, her page-turning satirical novel about crime and police in Charlotte, North Carolina, Cornwell moved behind the badges of these real-life heroes to uncover flesh-and-blood characters who strode through her pages as vulnerable, passionate, brave, sometimes comical, always fascinating figures.

In Southern Cross, Cornwell takes us even closer to the sometimes zany (but always threatening) experiences of big-city police, in a story of corruption, scandal, and robberies that escalate to murder. This time, the setting is Richmond, Virginia, where former Charlotte police chief Judy Hammer has been brought, by an NIJ grant, to clean up the police force.

Reeling from the recent death of her husband, and resented by the Richmond police force, city manager, and mayor, Hammer is joined by her deputy chief, Virginia West, and rookie Andy Brazil on the most difficult assignment of her career.

In the face overwhelming public scrutiny, the trio must find the link between the desecration of Confederate president Jefferson Davis's statue and the brutal murder of an elderly woman.

Following in the path of her most recent blockbuster Kay Scarpetta thriller, Point of Origin, Patricia Cornwell's new novel is a testimony to the singular versatility and narrative power of one of the country's best-read story-tellers.

This is the 2nd Andy Brazil / Judy Jammer novel, in its Book-of-the-Month Club edition.  

CONDITION: Dustjacket shows light edgewear and bumping at the corners, wear at head and tail of the spine. Interior appears unmarked, save for a BOMC bookplate from the previous owner on the IFEP.  

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