Different Women Dancing

by Jonathan Gash

Book Overview

An exciting new series by the author of the bestselling Lovejoy mysteries. While heading for home, Dr. Clare Burtonall happens upon the scene of a fatal traffic "accident" in a decayed city square slated for urban renewal. When Clare recognizes the victim as a business contact of her husband's, she opens a Pandora's box of corruption, crime, and murderous conspiracy that cannot be easily closed.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670873691
• ISBN13: 9780670873692
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Deeply Excellent

This is one of my favorite novels. It's not easy, no, but it's damn near brilliant--so much so that I'm at a loss to describe its qualities. If you're looking for an amusing, run-of-the-mill mystery, give this a miss. If you're looking for a series just like Lovejoy, only different, this is not that. But if you're looking for an excellent writer at the top of his game, writing about a world that is dense, skewed, and fascinating--with characters who don't fit any neat little boxes--and are willing to pay attention, you will be more than amply rewarded. Maybe this isn't a 'genre' book. I suspect that, somewhere down the line, it was not marketed properly--perhaps it couldn't have been. But--at least to this reader--it's a work of staggering art and imagination.

Sex, medicine, real estate - a winning combination.

Fans of Jonathan Gash, author of the acclaimed Lovejoy series, will be intrigued by the new setting and characters in this book. Clare Burtonall is a doctor; Bonn an enigmatic and skilfull "goer", a paid escort deeply involved in the underworld of the gritty urban scene they both inhabit. Murder draws them ever closer in a heady atmosphere involving real estate development, medicine, sex-for-hire, and fast-moving violence. Gash is a master of language. He rushes his story at you with a new vocabulary, leaving you gasping and struggling to comprehend, but slipping in enough flashes of clarity to keep you understanding events as they rush by. Female readers may agree that he has come close to answering Freud's famous question. What women want may just be someone like Bonn.