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Title details for Naked Cruelty by Colleen McCullough - Available

Naked Cruelty

#3 in series

by Colleen McCullough
Charles Leggett
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The bestselling author of The Thorn Birds once again pits Captain Carmine Delmonico against a dangerous villain and a difficult case. Without the help of modern forensic tools, Captain Carmine Delmonico and his trusted detectives must restore peace to their small university town. It's 1968, and amid the new era of paranoia, Delmonico faces new challenges. Sex and greed dominate two new murder cases—and a series of rapes seems to escalate to murder. For Carmine, it seems to be a case with no clues. And it comes as the Holloman Police Department is in turmoil: a lieutenant is out of his depth, a sergeant is out of control, and into this mix comes the beautiful, ruthlessly ambitious new trainee, Helen McIntosh, daughter of the influential president of Chubb University. As the killer makes his plans, Carmine and his team must use every resource at their disposal—including a team of highly motivated local vigilantes...

  • Creators

  • Series

    Carmine Delmonico

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    December 1, 2010

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792773801
      • File size: 370175 KB
      • Duration: 12:51:11

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Expert pacing is the key to Charles Leggett's reading of the third Carmine Delmonico mystery, set in 1968 Holloman, Connecticut. Police captain Delmonico struggles with problems at home, a new detective trainee, a serial rapist/murderer, and the kidnapping of a foreign national. What ties these disparate threads together is Leggett's ability to draw the listener in with his accents--German and British as well as the deeper, sarcastic East Coast accents used for the Holloman detectives. Leggett builds on the action scenes with his eerily calm portrayal of the murderer. He adds to the story's tension by drawing the scenes out slowly and then increasing his pace as the climax plays out. E.N. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 15, 2010
      Set in 1968, McCullough's uneven third Carmine Delmonico novel (after Too Many Murders) finds the Holloman, Conn., police captain facing multiple problems. On the crime front, a serial rapist calling himself Didus ineptus, the Linnaean name for the dodo bird, is increasing the violence of his attacks; a vandal strikes at a mall; incipient gang violence threatens area high schools; and the fate of a kidnapping victim strains resources. Within the department, everyone detests bright, beautiful, ambitious detective trainee Helen MacIntosh, the daughter of the president of Holloman's "world-famous institute of higher learning," Chubb University. One lieutenant, Corey Marshall, isn't working out, and another, Morty Jones, has a drinking problem. On the domestic front, Delmonico's wife, Desdemona, may be suffering from postpartum depression and is worsening by the day. The admirable Delmonico holds this character-driven novel together, but awkward plot twists and a climax more silly than shocking undermine credibility.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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