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    Cut to the Quick: A Novel

    Written by Dianne Emley

    Narrated by Carrington MacDuffie

    3.5/5

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    "Dianne Emley sets a cracking pace in this crime thriller, a follow-up novel to her blistering debut, The First Cut."-The Sunday Mail

    The crime scene was like something out of a horror movie. Billboard tycoon Oliver Mercer has been brutally slain in his home in the Pasadena hills, joined in death by his long-legged trophy girlfriend-both of their bodies displayed in a chilling tableau. The murder scene reawakens terrible memories for homicide detective Nan Vining, who survived her own harrowing attack a year earlier. While tracking the taunting game-player her daughter Emily dubbed T. B. Mann-The Bad Man-she is now working the Mercer case alongside her ex-flame Jim Kissick, stirring up conflicted feelings in Nan. From the ritzy estates of L.A.'s Lamborghini-driving set to a rocky desert outpost where rattlesnakes whisper murder, Nan will risk both her badge and her heart on a case that cuts close to the bone.


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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateDec 30, 2008
    ISBN9781415947098
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    Cut to the Quick: A Novel
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    Dianne Emley

    Dianne Emley is a L.A.Times and Amazon bestselling author who has received critical acclaim for her Detective Nan Vining thrillers and Iris Thorne mysteries. Her books have been published in over 20 countries and seven languages. Her short fiction has been published in anthologies including Literary Pasadena. A Los Angeles native, Dianne lives in the California countryside with her husband. About Dianne's books, Tess Gerritsen says: "Emley masterfully twists, turns, and shocks."

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    • 5/5
      Well written
    • 4/5
      Intense, powerful and suspenseful are some of the words to describe Dianne Emley's book The First Cut. It's the first book in a series featuring Detective Nan Vining. The mystery in this book is not who the killer is but when and how the detectives figure it out. The reader is told who the murderer is about half way into the book and it's interesting to see how the police come up with the killer. The book had well define characters and a story that was well written and fast reading. I can't wait to read the rest of the books in the series.
    • 4/5
      A lovely suspense story. Read the book in one night. It was fun to read and I would read it again.
    • 4/5
      The assailant was vicious, the attack brutal - and it left her lifeless - until her pulse fluttered and she jolted awake. Now, a year later, detective Nan Vining is still questioning her strength, her safety, even her sanity: Can she ever again be the cop - and mother - she was before? And will her attacker someday return to finish the job, before she can track him down herself? Shaky but determined, Vining rejoins the Pasadena PD, only to confront a murder case that strikes close to home. A slain policewoman, Frankie Lynde, has been discovered beneath the Colorado Street Bridge, her body bruised, her throat slit. Digging deeper into Lynde's past, Vining discovers clues that set her on the twisted trail of a killer as ruthless as he is depraved - a predator whose methods and madness recall those of her own attacker.
    • 3/5
      I bought this book because Tess Gerritsen says it's great. Pathetic, I know. Thankfully this is a good thriller, I couldn't stop reading. The only thing that bothers me is the way they start to suspect the killer. It is so unlikely you wouldn't believe it. Anyway, I'm definitely going to read the sequel.
    • 4/5
      This is the first time I have ever read this author as well and I really enjoyed this book. At first I didn't think I would like it but then I got right into it.
    • 4/5
      Do not read a Dianne Emley mystery alone at night. This one scared the heck out of me, especially because I know the locations of which she speaks. Yikes!

      Petrea Burchard
      Camelot & Vine