Book
The alias man / Bill Pronzini.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802733818
- ISBN: 0802733816
- Physical Description: 213 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Walker & Co., 2004.
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| Subject: | Women > Crimes against > Fiction. Swindlers and swindling > Fiction. Revenge > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Crime thrillers. Psychological thrillers. Noir fiction. |
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- 4 of 4 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Fort St. James Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Fort St. James Public Library | PRO (Text) | 35196000074208 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2004 May #2
Jesse, a recently widowed antiques dealer from Pennsylvania, has a random sexual encounter with an art dealer in Sante Fe and is surprised by a marriage proposal. Sarah, a Vancouver bookshop owner, lost her husband to a car accident, but the body was never recovered. Morgan, a Northern California teacher, is certain her husband is having an affair. When he disappears, she finds and opens a safety-deposit box that contains cash and four names. Jesse, curious about her impetuous lover, tracks him back through the Sante Fe art community and uncovers multiple identities, which leads her to Morgan, the jilted schoolteacher, and Sarah, the mourning bookseller. Pronzini, a master storyteller whether writing his stellar Nameless detective series, westerns, or stand-alone thrillers, comes through once again with carefully rendered victims and a villain for whom the chameleon metaphor extends to his mercilessly reptilian brain. Most satisfying is the evolution of the victims, as each learns to compensate for the flaw that exposed them to the con man's sinister exploitation. Excellent reading. ((Reviewed May 15, 2004)) Copyright 2004 Booklist Reviews. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2004 June #1
The three women featured in this latest work from the Shamus Award-winning Prozini (In an Evil Time) have lost the men in their lives through death, desertion, or disappearance (he met one at a party and then mysteriously dropped her). To their horror, they discover that these men are the same person. Using different identities across the United States and Canada, "the Alias Man" has seduced and married several women, lived with each for three to four years, and then left her heartbroken and missing her life savings or inheritance. The book's appeal lies in the examination of each woman's devastation at her loss, her horror at gradually learning the truth, and the ultimate strength she finds as she bonds with the other women. But this is not really a suspense novel; the women never seem to be in danger, and there is never any real doubt about the outcome. Still, the author's many fans may want to read it all the same. Buy for demand. [Pronzini is married to Marcia Muller, whose new Sharon McCone mystery, The Dangerous Hour, is reviewed on p. 106.-Ed.]-Kim Uden Rutter, Lake Villa Dist. Lib., IL Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2004 June #1
Best known for his long-running (four decades) Nameless Detective series, the prolific Pronzini centers his latest stand-alone around three angry women who have all been duped by the same bigamist con man. Known variously as Burt Cord, Allan Cooney, Frank Court or Scott Collins, he has a penchant for willowy blondes with money-he marries them, bleeds them dry, then disappears. It's a good scam that begins to unravel when the latest victim, Jessie Keene, falls for his act then has doubts about her rather odd and too-ardent lover, and the most recent wife, Morgan Cord, finds fake passports and photographs of her husband with other women. Joined by British Columbian bookseller Sarah Collins, the women nickname their victimizer Alias Man and decide to hunt him down and turn him over to the police. There's a mystery of sorts involving a thug who's also tracking down Alias, but it's all rather bloodless-literally so as the only corpse that turns up was killed by accident. All in all, the women aren't mad enough and the villain isn't bad enough to add up to much more than a mildly diverting read. Pronzini fans are best advised to wait for the next Nameless Detective installment. (June) Forecast: Name recognition will bring in some readers, but big numbers are doubtful. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
