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The first of Nicola Griffith's beloved sapphic crime series, the novel that introduced the fierce and beguiling Aud Torvingen.
It would be so easy--a step, a smile, swift whirl and grab, and snap: done. I even knew how she would fall, what a tiny sound her last sigh would be, how she would fold onto the pavement. Eight seconds.Aud Torvingen 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, she now lives in Atlanta, luxuriating in the lush heat and brashness of the New South, gliding easily between the city's worlds of silken elegance and sleazy, sudden savagery, equally at home in both. She used to be police, but now she imposes her fierce justice freelance. She is, she tells herself, most comfortable alone. On a humid April evening between storms, out walking to stay sharp, Aud turns a corner and collides with a running woman. Aud catches the stranger and herself, her own instinct to lash out, then nods and silently tells the stranger, Today, you are lucky, and turns to move on--when behind her the house explodes in flames. When Aud turns back, the woman is gone. But the woman comes back, seeking Aud's help and protection from a deadly international game of forgery, drugs, money, and murder. Aud can handle it, of course, but fighting for this woman, Aud opens herself to a kind of vulnerability she never expected. Nicola Griffith's The Blue Place is a grimly breakneck thrill, and the beginning of a fierce saga of sapphic crime.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Griffith, Nicola
- ISBN: 9780374539191
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.25 x 1.00
- Number Of Pages: 320
- Publication Year: 2025
Language:
English