Blossom

Name: Blossom
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Andrew Vachss
ISBN: 9781441821133

Author: Andrew Vachss

Series: Burke Series #5

Narrator: Phil Gigante

Unabridged: 6 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 04/15/2010

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Hard-boiled

Synopsis

In the figure of Burke, Andrew Vachss has given contemporary crime fiction one of its most mesmerizing characters. An abused child raised in orphanages, foster homes, and prisons, Burke is a career criminal and outlaw who steals and scams for a living.
In Blossom, an old cellmate has summoned Burke to a fading Indiana mill town, where a young boy is charged with a crime he didn't commit and a twisted serial sniper has turned a local lovers' lane into a killing field. And it's here that Burke meets Blossom, the brilliant, beautiful young woman who has her own reasons for finding the murderer—and her own idea of vengeance. Dense with atmosphere, savagely convincing, this is Vachss at his uncompromising best.

About Andrew Vachss

Andrew Vachss is a lawyer who represents children and youths exclusively. His many novels and two collections of short stories have been translated into twenty languages, and his work has appeared in Parade, Esquire, Playboy, and The New York Times, among other publications. A native New Yorker, he divides his time between the city of his birth and the Pacific Northwest.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John

You run a risk when you remove a series character from his environment. You take away a large part of what the reader comes to the book expecting. Vachss, knowing what is to come, attempts to counteract this reaction by spending some time watching Burke, his protagonist, operate in and around the Ne......more

Goodreads review by Skip

First in this series not to be based in NYC. An old cellmate, Virgil, asks for Burke's. Virgil's wife, Rebecca, comes to New York because Virgil is hiding with their nephew, Lloyd, in the outskirts of the Indiana mill town where they live. The scene where Rebecca and Virgil size each other up is gre......more

Goodreads review by Larry

I am re-reading or I should say listening to the audible version of the Burke series 10 years later. Blossom is the woman in this book. She is quite a bit different from the previous women. She falls for Burke of course and vice versa. She calls him a trouble man. A man who trouble follows. The stor......more