Last Lullaby

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2006
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Los Angeles Times reporter Eve Diamond has spent the day at LAX, shadowing a U.S. Customs Supervisor who's got his eye on an incoming flight from Beijing via Seoul and Tokyo. The flight's packed with the usual mass of humanity, ranging from the elegant Asian woman in the raspberry silk suit who emerges from first class carrying a tired toddler, to the scruffy students who have spent the long flight in economy. Suddenly, shots ring out. Three people are dead, including the silk-clad woman. The man who was booked on the flight as the dead woman's husband is missing. And the sad little toddler is left behind. Who is this child? Her passport says she's Japanese, but she doesn't seem to understand the language. Was the dead woman really her mother? Why has the child made five transpacific flights in one year? And why do Customs and Immigration whisk her immediately into hiding? Eve knows she must uncover the answers, even though it means putting herself at risk. Her search takes her from L.A.'s sleazy hotels and cybercafes to the upscale milieu of trendy restaurants and high-powered human-rights lawyers. Nothing is quite what it appears to be, and nobody seems to want Eve to find the child.

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Los Angeles Times reporter Eve Diamond has spent the day at LAX, shadowing a U.S. Customs Supervisor who's got his eye on an incoming flight from Beijing via Seoul and Tokyo. The flight's packed with the usual mass of humanity, ranging from the elegant Asian woman in the raspberry silk suit who emerges from first class carrying a tired toddler, to the scruffy students who have spent the long flight in economy. Suddenly, shots ring out. Three people are dead, including the silk-clad woman. The man who was booked on the flight as the dead woman's husband is missing. And the sad little toddler is left behind. Who is this child? Her passport says she's Japanese, but she doesn't seem to understand the language. Was the dead woman really her mother? Why has the child made five transpacific flights in one year? And why do Customs and Immigration whisk her immediately into hiding? Eve knows she must uncover the answers, even though it means putting herself at risk. Her search takes her from L.A.'s sleazy hotels and cybercafes to the upscale milieu of trendy restaurants and high-powered human-rights lawyers. Nothing is quite what it appears to be, and nobody seems to want Eve to find the child.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Orion
Published: 20 Jul 2006
ISBN 10: 0752877925
ISBN 13: 9780752877921
Book Overview: Denise Hamilton's debut novel, THE JASMINE TRADE, was shortlisted for the Creasey Dagger for Best First Crime Novel of the Year, to add to its nominations for the Edgar, Anthony, and Macavity awards. Universal Films have optioned the Eve Diamond series. Denise Hamilton has received very good reviews for her novels: 'Pacy, lucid story-telling which never runs out of road or fuel' Literary Review. 'Exhilarating ... so absorbing that you don't want to stop reading.' Los Angeles Times Book Review 'A significant advance on Denise Hamilton's first novel, The Jasmine Trade ... an intriguing thriller from a writer who looks set to fulfil her early promise' Sunday Telegraph. 'Utterly engrossing' Irish Independent. 'More than a good crime story. Denise Hamilton points her flashlight into the dark corners of our world. Read it and learn' Michael Connelly.

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Denise Hamilton's work has appeared in THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, WIRED and COSMOPOLITAN. She now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.

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