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Moving Target: A Novel
Author:
Jance, Judith A.
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Series:
Ali Reynolds mysteries
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Class:
Fiction
Age: Adult
Language: English
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LC: PS3560.A
Print Run: 150000
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ISBN-13: 9781476745008
LCCN: 2013028619
Imprint: Touchstone
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Pub Date: 02/18/2014
Availability: Out of Stock Indefinitely
List: $25.99
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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340 pages ; 24 cm
H 9",
W 6",
D 1.2",
1.15 lbs.
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Brodart's Blockbuster List
Brodart's Insight Catalog: Adult
Brodart's TOP Adult Titles
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New York Times Bestsellers List
New York Times Bestsellers: Adult Fiction
Publishers Weekly Bestsellers
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TIPS Subjects:
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Mystery/Detective Fiction
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BISAC Subjects: |
FICTION / Thrillers / General
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
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LC Subjects:
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Arizona, Fiction
Mystery fiction
Reynolds, Ali (Fictitious character), Fiction
Reynolds, Ali, (Fictitious character), Fiction
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Arizona, Fiction
Mystery fiction
Reynolds, Ali (Fictional character), Fiction
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| Brodart's TOP Adult Titles | 10/01/2013 |
| A sense of duty sends Ali' Reynolds's fiance, B. Simpson, and a nun packing heat in search of answers when a juvenile offender that B. put in jail is set ablaze while decking the lockup rec room halls with Christmas decorations. Meanwhile, in England, Ali seeks answers behind Leland's father's decades-old murder. 320pp., 150K, Auth res: Seattle, WA; Tucson, AZ |
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| Booklist | 01/01/2014 |
| Just weeks before her wedding, Ali Reynolds accompanies eightysomething Leland Brooks, her longtime beloved majordomo, to England for his first trip back to his homeland in almost 60 years, a visit that reveals shocking family secrets. Meanwhile, Ali's fiance, B. Simpson, head of high-tech security company High Noon Enterprises, is diverted from his international business by the plight of teenage computer wunderkind Lance Tucker. Put in juvenile detention after breaking into his Texas school district's computer system, Lance is almost fatally injured in what is deemed an accident. But as the bodies pile up, including those of Lance's math teacher and a maintenance man at the detention center, it's clear that someone badly wants GHOST, "the cyber version of Harry Potter's invisibility cloak" that allows undetected web surfing, developed by Lance and his late teacher. In the ninth Ali Reynolds outing (after Deadly Stakes, 2013), Jance adroitly combines well-rounded characterizations and brisk storytelling with high-tech exploits, arson, kidnappings, and a shootout for an entertaining and suspenseful addition to this solid series. Leber, Michele. 320p. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2014. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 01/15/2014 |
| An ex-reporter, a high-tech specialist and a nun help right wrongs of the near and distant past as they circle the globe. Even though Ali Reynolds (Deadly Stakes, 2013, etc.) is a grandmother, she intends to get married in style. She doesn't come to England with her major-domo Leland Brooks just to shop for a wedding gown, however: She hopes to see Leland reunited with his estranged family while she tries to find out if Leland's late father had a little help in dying. Ali's fiance, B. Simpson, head of a computer security company, is following the case of Lance Tucker. A former honors student and computer whiz at a Texas high school, Lance was recently released from juvenile detention after an accident that broke both his legs and gave him second-degree burns. Simpson, who was partly responsible for sending Lance to juvie when the boy was caught hacking into his school's computer system, feels guilty and wants to lend a hand. For starters, he has Sister Anselm appointed as Lance's patient advocate. The murder of another advocate for the teenager unites Ali, Simpson and Sister Anselm in trying to protect Lance, who's developed a computer application that may be worth more than his life. Dizzying changes of locale and point of view, along with large helpings of sentimentality, weaken Ali's latest. If only Jance had focused on one plot instead of sending her characters all over creation in pursuit of two separate mysteries. 320pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2014. |
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| Publishers Weekly | 11/25/2013 |
| At the start of Jance's engrossing ninth Ali Reynolds novel (after 2013's Deadly Stakes), Ali, eager to escape the chaos surrounding her upcoming wedding to B. Simpson, travels from Sedona, Ariz., to England with her 80-something majordomo, Leland Brooks. Sixty years earlier, Leland's family disowned him, and he left the country in disgrace. Now he and Ali discover there's more to the story--including a long-unsolved murder. Meanwhile, someone succeeds in severely burning Lance Tucker, a teen hacker B. helped incriminate, at the San Leandro, Tex., juvenile facility where he's being held. Feeling responsible and seeing himself in Lance, B. investigates who wants the boy dead and why, aided by his colleagues at the cybersecurity firm High Noon and Sister Anselm, an elderly nun with a Taser, who guards Lance's hospital room. Jance provides enough backstory to orient readers new to the series, and longtime fans should enjoy insights into B.'s and Leland's pasts. Agent: Alice Volpe, Northwest Literary Agency. (Feb.). 320p. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2013. |
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