Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Blue Place

Nicola Griffith

3.9/5 ( ratings)

A police lieutenant with the elite "Red Dogs" until she retired at twenty-nine , Aud Torvigen is a rangy six-footer with eyes the color of cement and a tendency to hurt people who get in her way. Born in Norway into the failed marriage between a Scandinavian diplomat and an American businessman, she now makes Atlanta her home, luxuriating in the lush heat and brashness of the New South. She glides easily between the world of silken elegance and that of sleaze and sudden savagery, equally at home in both; functional, deadly, and temporarily quiescent, like a folded razor.

On a humid April evening between storms, out walking just to stay sharp, she turns a corner and collides with a running woman, Catching the scent of clean, rain-soaked hair, Aud nods and silently tells the stranger Today, you are lucky, and moves on—when behind her house explodes, incinerating its sole occupant, a renowned art historian. When Aud turns back, the woman is gone.

Language: English

Pages: 308

Format: Paperback

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks

Release: June 01, 1999

ISBN: 0380790882

ISBN 13: 9780380790883

The Blue Place

Nicola Griffith

3.9/5 ( ratings)

A police lieutenant with the elite "Red Dogs" until she retired at twenty-nine , Aud Torvigen is a rangy six-footer with eyes the color of cement and a tendency to hurt people who get in her way. Born in Norway into the failed marriage between a Scandinavian diplomat and an American businessman, she now makes Atlanta her home, luxuriating in the lush heat and brashness of the New South. She glides easily between the world of silken elegance and that of sleaze and sudden savagery, equally at home in both; functional, deadly, and temporarily quiescent, like a folded razor.

On a humid April evening between storms, out walking just to stay sharp, she turns a corner and collides with a running woman, Catching the scent of clean, rain-soaked hair, Aud nods and silently tells the stranger Today, you are lucky, and moves on—when behind her house explodes, incinerating its sole occupant, a renowned art historian. When Aud turns back, the woman is gone.

Language: English

Pages: 308

Format: Paperback

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks

Release: June 01, 1999

ISBN: 0380790882

ISBN 13: 9780380790883

More books from Nicola Griffith

Hild

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Ammonite

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Slow River

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Cold Wind

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Spear

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Bending The Landscape: Science Fiction

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Bending the Landscape: Fantasy

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Year's Best Fantasy

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 9

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Bending the Landscape: Original Gay and Lesbian Horror Writing

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 4

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Fantasy Magazine, December 2015: Queers Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 101

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Letters to Tiptree

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Before They Were Giants: First Works from Science Fiction Greats

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Transformarea lui Martin Lake si alte povestiri

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Second Helpings, Read These Lips: Volume Two: Lesbian Short Writings

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Galileo Science Fiction & Fantasy nr. 2

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Asimov's Science Fiction, March 1995

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Realms Of Fantasy, June 2000

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?