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Stealing from the dead
Record details
- ISBN: 9780765327178 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 0765327171 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 9781429988285 (e-book)
- ISBN: 1429988282 (e-book)
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Physical Description:
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380 p. ; 25 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Forge, 2012.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Tom Doherty Associates book." |
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| Genre: | Mystery fiction. Suspense fiction. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Kitimat Public Library | Zer (Text) | 32665001825969 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Kitimat Public Library | Zer (Text) | 32665001856451 | Fiction | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2012 August #1
New York City detective Greta Strasser is already in hot water with her boss because she antagonizes her superior officers. When she gets called to the apartment of a dead woman, there is no evidence to suggest foul play, but the scene bothers her. Although the department wants the case closed, she continues to investigate. The woman was a Holocaust survivor with no family. When a man calls her with questions about the woman, Greta suspects a con game. The trail leads to Swiss bank accounts opened by thousands of Jews, hoping to secure their assets, between 1933 and 1945. But when the account holders attempted to reclaim their money, the banks said that the accounts never existed. Greta uncovers an international conspiracy and is recruited to go undercover as part of a special task force. She also uncovers corruption within the police department. This action-filled story draws effectively on real-life issues. Copyright 2012 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2012 August #2
An NYPD detective incongruously juggles a gang of murderous swindlers whose ill-gotten gains are financing international terrorism and a more traditional kind of gang that operates considerably closer to the streets of New York. Theo Appel, who used to counterfeit documents for the CIA, has been turned away by nearly every cop in town, but Detective Greta Strasser, who can't persuade anyone in Manhattan's 24th Precinct that concentration-camp survivor Pauline Kantor's death was murder, is prepared to listen to him. The story he tells is a wild one. A well-financed band of outlaws has been persuading Holocaust survivors like Pauline, whose assets have never been returned by the Swiss banks in which they were deposited, to file paperwork with the Claims Restoration Tribunal and then killing the claimants and taking over their claims. The most cogent evidence in support of Theo's theory that the thieves are targeting claimants in several large American cities and murdering them at the rate of one a month comes when he dies himself under circumstances that look like suicide to everyone but Greta. In the meantime, the intrepid heroine narrowly escapes death at the hands of an assassin who breaks into her home and shoots her dog. Greta's decisive reaction to this home invasion makes it too late to ask the would-be killer whether he was a professional working for the swindlers or a homeboy associate of Viper Xtreme, a gangster Greta can't help going after even though she's repeatedly warned to stick to desk duty by both sympathetic Lt. Nick Geracimos and bullying precinct commander Capt. Quill. So Greta keeps working both cases, even after FBI agent Thomas August gets her seconded to the Joint Terrorism Task Force. Whew. Zerries (The Lost Van Gogh, 2006) keeps both great matters and small moving along smartly courtesy of what may be New York's toughest female cop. Copyright Kirkus 2012 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2012 June #4
Set in 2005, this fast-moving and often surprising crime thriller from Zerries (The Lost Van Gogh) introduces Greta Strasser, a take-no-prisoners NYPD detective who could easily sustain a series. When Greta arrives at the Upper West Side apartment of a woman who appears to be a simple DOA ("Dead, Old, and Alone"), she can't help noticing a subtle anomalyâevidence suggesting that Holocaust survivor Paulina Kantor was not alone when she died of a heart attack. Her investigation makes her no friends in her Manhattan precinct, but does attract the attention of an elderly ex-CIA agent, Theo Appel, who believes Kantor's death is not only the latest in a series but connected to a scheme to steal restitution funds for survivors of the Nazis. Greta must also track down a gang-banger, and both cases end up attracting federal scrutiny. Part of the resolution is a little too pat, but overall the plot elements work well. Agent: Barbara Braun Associates. (Aug.)
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