Book Giveaway: The Night Gardener
I'm authorized to give away 5 copies. Rules for entry in the drawing are below. Please read them carefully.
The Night Gardener
by George Pelecanos
TRADE PAPERBACK 6/10/2009
Back Bay Books
400p
From Publishers Weekly:
Starred Review. Pelecanos (Drama City) delivers a dignified, character-driven epic that succeeds as both literary novel and page-turner. In 1985, the body of a 14-year-old girl turns up in a Washington, D.C., park, the latest in a series of murders by a killer the media dub "The Night Gardener." T.C. Cook, the aging detective on the case, works with a quiet, almost monomaniacal, focus. Also involved are two young uniformed cops, Gus Ramone, who's diligent, conscientious and unimpressed by heroics, and Dan "Doc" Holiday, an adrenaline junkie who's decidedly less straight.
Fast forward 20 years. Detective Ramone, now married with kids of his own, investigates the murder of one of his teenage son's friends. The homicide closely resembles the earlier unsolved Night Gardener murders. Holiday, now an alcoholic chauffeur and bodyguard, follows the case on his own and tracks down Cook, long retired but still obsessed with the original murders. While the three work together toward a suspenseful ending, Pelecanos emphasizes the fallacy of "solving" a murder and explores the ripple effects of violent crime on society.
Rules:
- Leave a comment in this post expressing your interest in entering the drawing.
- Provide an @ by which I can contact you in case of a win. Either in your comment or in an email to me at joystory AT gmail DOT com If you email your @ be sure to connect it to your entry. If I do not receive an @ your entry will be disqualified.
- If, in the case of a win, you would like me link to your blog in the winners announcement post, provide your URL in your comment or via email. This is not a requirement for entering nor do you have to have a blog yourself in order to enter.
- If you blog or twitter about this giveaway, send me a link to the post and your name will be entered a second time.
- Deadline for entering is NOON PST Saturday, Jun 27, 2009. I will select the winners with a random sequence generator using www.random.org.
- I will announce the winners in a post as well as notify by email. Winners must respond with their mailing info within two days or forfeit. In which case I notify the next entry in the sequence generated by random.org.
- Winners must provide a US or Canadian mailing address. Hachette is unable to deliver to PO Boxes. Also, for those of you winning the same title in more than one contest, be aware that Hachette may not deliver multiple copies of a single title to a single address.
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George Pelecanos is one of my favorite authors - please count me in!
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I really liked The Turnaround by this author and would love to read another of his books. The Night Gardener sounds great. Enter me please. :)
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sounds like a good summer read!
I have seen several reviews of this book and would enjoy reading it. Thanks.
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I have been reading great reviews on this book, it is definitely on my summer reading list
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Please enter me. George Pelecanos is one of the authors I've gotten interested in recently. Thanks!
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I'm a new reader to mystries and I would like to read this book. It sounds interesting.
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