Nicola Griffith - Always

“Griffith’s prose is at once brutal and beautifully wrought. Stay has a central character both hard-boiled and a softie at heart, and momentum like a car wreck.”

“Griffith switches genres and breathes life into an appealing heroine in this smoothly plotted pulse-slammer…. Readers will want to see more of Aud Torvingen.”

“Well-crafted, evocatively written and swift paced, The Blue Place is for devotees of classic, hard-edged detective tales…. But this isn’t simply a thriller [but] an excursion into the more disturbing sides of psyches…. Ultimately The Blue Place is, as all good thrillers and all the best literary fiction are, a novel of quests and identity.”

“Griffith has already won herself Lambda and Nebula awards… and she seems destined to add to her laurels.” —The Washington Post Book World

“A heroine who is a cold-blooded killing machine… but superfit, super-bright Aud is certainly one watchable sleuth and may win Griffith quite a following of less squeamish readers.”

"The novel goes down like honey, full of the quirky detail that makes a good mystery great…. If pretty girls and danger don’t grab you, the plot will.”

“Griffith clearly challenges us to understand a radically atypical—or perhaps just typically ignored—aspect of the female psyche: the fine line between brutality and passion. She produces passages that provoke and startle… finely rendered observations. The novel soars. Aud’s ‘blue place’—where women glow with the elated, bluish tinge of power rather than the black and blue marks of victimhood—is a peculiar and unsettling place indeed.”

“Griffith proves she can write crime fiction that stacks up more than favorably with the work of the best writers in the field…. Dennis Lehane, Andrew Vachss, and James Lee Burke have each taken crime fiction to a new level and each has expanded the possibilities of the genre. Nicola Griffith is the next name on a very short list.”

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Griffith, Nicola.

Always / Nicola Griffith.

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eISBN : 978-1-4406-2971-6

1. Torvingen, Aud (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Ex-police officers—Fiction. 3. Lesbians—Fiction. 4. Self-defense for women—Fiction. 5. Real estate investment—Fiction. 6. Fraud investigation—Fiction. 7. Atlanta (Ga.)—Fiction. 8. Seattle (Wash.)—Fiction. I. Title.

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