Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3393832 in Books
• Published on: 1991-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 277 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Guilt and revenge fuel this neatly crafted mystery, third in a series by Grant ( Blind Trust ). Furious at a client's double-cross, San Francisco PI Catherine Sayler distracts herself from revenge to investigate, at the request of her friend Joe, the death of his cousin Mitch, a recovering alcoholic who had threatened to expose the prominent jurist who molested him as a child. Judge Samuel Reiter could wallpaper his chambers with awards given him for his work with boys' clubs; unfortunately, Catherine proves he's been collecting darker rewards too. With the net drawing tight around the judge and plans for avenging herself simmering, Catherine is saddled with her alienated 14-year-old niece, Molly, who has run away from suburbia. Then the judge is killed, suspicion falls on Joe, and Molly gets kidnapped. Grant juggles her plot smoothly, keeping all balls up in the air until the very end, when readers may be disappointed at the way they fall. The scenes of Molly's rebellion against responsible adults--a nearly seamless wall of loud music, sloppy habits and weird friends with odd hairdos--offer priceless shots of Catherine wryly miffed to be labeled one of Them. Mystery Guild selection; paperback rights to Fawcett.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Kirkus Reviews
A two-part case for personality-pale San Francisco p.i. Catherine Sayler: first, expose much-lauded judge Samuel Reiter as a pedophile and habitual child-abuser/seducer as well as the man behind the death of alcoholic Mitch Morrison, one of his former victims; and, second, prove that lawyer Joe Girard, Mitch's cousin and another of the judge's former ``special'' boys, did not suddenly decide to murder the judge with the proverbial blunt instrument. Then who did? Charming young reporter Kevin Doyle cajoles Catherine into letting him help her sift through evidence/suspect lists/etc., while she also plays mom to her runaway niece Molly. Eventually, Catherine and Molly are kidnapped by one of the judge's more vicious pedophile chums (to protect his kiddie-porn trade), but it's Catherine's glimpse of a sweet young face in one of the judge's albums that helps establish who killed him. Like Blind Trust (1980), a silly compilation of Oprah and Donohue subjects (A.A. sobriety and anonymity/mother-daughter contretemps/victims' guilt) all earnestly--and tediously--explained at the primer level. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.