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The fatal shooting of off-duty detective Michael Cluett, recently transferred from Manhattan to Brooklyn and days short of his 40-year tenure, sets off the series of intertwining investigations pursued in Maron's engrossing procedural. After the shooting, lieutenant Sigrid Harald, Cluett's boss in Manhattan, learns that he and her own boss had worked with her father, also a policeman, and may have shared a dark secret about his death in the line of duty many years before. The subsequent killing of the computer operator checking on the Cluett murder weapon suggests police involvement and leads Harald to probe her father's death. Alternating with the narrative of her search is the voice of Jarvis Vaughn, a black police detective from Brooklyn whose first-person account gives an intimate view of the internal investigation. Providing continuity and atmosphere with details of the snowy cityscape, Maron writes a terse, technically expert police procedural, its hard-boiled plot undiluted by sentimentality.
The fatal shooting of off-duty detective Michael Cluett, recently transferred from Manhattan to Brooklyn and days short of his 40-year tenure, sets off the series of intertwining investigations pursued in Maron's engrossing procedural. After the shooting, lieutenant Sigrid Harald, Cluett's boss in Manhattan, learns that he and her own boss had worked with her father, also a policeman, and may have shared a dark secret about his death in the line of duty many years before. The subsequent killing of the computer operator checking on the Cluett murder weapon suggests police involvement and leads Harald to probe her father's death. Alternating with the narrative of her search is the voice of Jarvis Vaughn, a black police detective from Brooklyn whose first-person account gives an intimate view of the internal investigation. Providing continuity and atmosphere with details of the snowy cityscape, Maron writes a terse, technically expert police procedural, its hard-boiled plot undiluted by sentimentality.
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Hardback Editions
February 1992 : Hardback
| Title: Past Imperfect Author(s): Margaret Maron ISBN: 0-7278-4309-5 / 978-0-7278-4309-8 (UK edition) Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1991 : Hardback
| Title: Past Imperfect Author(s): Margaret Maron ISBN: 0-385-41364-5 / 978-0-385-41364-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Doubleday Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
April 1992 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: PAST IMPERFECT (Sigrid Harald Mysteries) Author(s): Margaret Maron ISBN: 0-553-29546-2 / 978-0-553-29546-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Crimeline Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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