Inside Out
A Mystery
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Natalie Price, who first appeared in Elise Title's acclaimed Killing Time, runs Horizon House, a halfway house for about-to-be-released convicts in the Massachusetts prison system. A young woman in a man's world, Nat is constantly under the gun - sometimes literally - to keep things running safely for inmates and employees.
The lastest inmate to enter Horizon House is Lynn Ingram, a transsexual who was convicted of manslaughter but always claimed self-defense. Her trial a few years earlier was a media circus, and the press attention has started back up since the news of her transfer.
Just days into her transfer, Lynn is beaten into a coma. Nat is fiercely determined to protect her charge and discover what happened, and begins to look deeper into Lynn's life with the help of Boston Homicide Detective Leo Coscarelli, with whom Nat is more emotionally involved than maybe she should be, seeing as how the mother of Leo's child is also one of the inmates at Horizon House.
Before they can get very far in their investigation, though, it begins to seem that Natalie and Leo have a determined killer on their hands, and more than Lynn's life is at stake.
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In Title's uneven sequel to 2002's Killing Time, Boston prison superintendent Natalie "Nat" Price investigates the physical and emotional wreckage left by the brutal slashing of a transsexual, Dr. Lynn Ingram. Lynn's dicey past includes jail time for the "self-defense" killing of a prominent Boston attorney, a brief marriage back while she was a man and estrangement from her bigoted, suddenly wealthy parents. Title treats this potentially garish case with psychological empathy and restraint. A complex and seldom clich d heroine, Nat operates in an original milieu, Horizon House, a prerelease facility. But the reader may feel like one of Nat's colleagues, who scolds her, "Fine for you to go latching on to one suspect after another." The plot takes more twists and turns than all the roller coasters in all the theme parks in Orlando, as the author brings in a suicidal addict threatening to jump from a ledge, a shady priest found hanged in his rectory, a kidnapped child, gunshots and even a kidnapped dog. Despite many convincingly rendered characters, settings verge on the formulaic a townhouse is "posh," an Oriental rug "exquisite," a front parlor "elegant." Title keeps the reader guessing who's behind all the mayhem, but readers will hope she shows better control next time.
