A Falling Knife: An Evan Adair Mystery

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After twenty-three years at the NYPD and a devastating private loss, he wants no part of another investigation.

Questions?

But an old colleague comes calling wi In a landscape strewn with dollars, how do you catch a killer who's playing for higher stakes than money? But an old colleague comes calling with a tantalizing riddle. A Wall Street wunderkind, a young quant with everything to live for, has taken a bizarre public dive from an opera balcony. Was the fall his own idea?

And his injuries, as it turns out, weren't enough to kill him. So how -- and why -- did he die? Soon there is another death, this one a vicious knife attack.

The dual investigation draws Adair into the byzantine worlds of finance and high-stakes biotech. He finds secrets with long histories and numbers that can talk -- if only he can figure out how to listen. Paperback , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about A Falling Knife , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia.

This is an oddly lyrical piece, given its subject matter: Wall Street, Biomedical research, murder. Deborah is to be commended highly for taking some unbelievably tired tropes—the jaded ex-New-York-cop, the ball-busting female Wall Street exec, the financial culture shrouded in secrecy so you never know who's protagonist or antagonist—and breathing new life into them.

Everything that's said and done makes sense, isn't overwrought at least not anymore than actual conversations on Wall Street This is an oddly lyrical piece, given its subject matter: Everything that's said and done makes sense, isn't overwrought at least not anymore than actual conversations on Wall Street are , carries me along, and leads to a more than satisfying conclusion. I do have to subtract one star because it may actually be too lyrical.

I wasn't sitting on the edge of my seat, wondering who killed the victim and, for that matter, how. Intelligent, well-crafted, not a word out of place A fine Kentucky bourbon of a mystery. Apr 10, Mickey Hoffman rated it really liked it. This book has a great plot and also a very interesting sub-plot. The characters are very interesting and the setting is New York city, and it's well fleshed out.

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Two things keep me from giving it five stars. There are at least 15 characters and the story is told from the point of view of at least 8 of them. At times, the POV changes within one short paragraph and I found it confusing. The second issue is that I had difficulty understanding aspects of the book dealing with Wall Street trading. Alo This book has a great plot and also a very interesting sub-plot. Along with a few words I didn't know which weren't explained, I was at a loss to figure out what group of investors was doing what to the other and why.

I really enjoyed it At first the book was a bit confusing with all the names and new characters. But after the first part, the story was capturing and exciting. Sep 07, Barnaby Haszard Morris rated it really liked it. Apart from some confusion in Part One, where over a dozen characters are introduced that you can only later begin to keep track of, I greatly enjoyed A Falling Knife. I'm not usually one for detective stories but this one was extremely satisfying to read. The characters, in particular, are very strong, as is Deborah's capacity for description -- of people, of places, of emotional states, of action.

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