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The Odds (2009)

Kathleen George
Reviewed by Tina Jordan | May 29, 2009
EW's GRADE
A-

Details Release Date: Jun 09, 2009; Writer: Kathleen George; Genres: Fiction, Mystery; Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur

The Story
In this sequel of sorts to Afterimage—a gritty police procedural set on Pittsburgh's North Side—homicide chief Richard Christie is ill, leaving detectives Greer and 
 Potocki to work a murder case that grows more 
 complicated by the day.

TV Pitch
Homicide, Pittsburgh-style.

Lowdown

If anyone's writing better police thrillers than George, I don't know who it is. A-

Originally posted May 26, 2009 Published in issue #1050 Jun 05, 2009 Order article reprints

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