And there he kept her / Joshua Moehling.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781728247892
- ISBN: 1728247896
- Physical Description: 312 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Naperville, IL : Poisoned Pen Press, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes reading group guide and author interview. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Sheriffs > Fiction. Gay men > Fiction. Abduction > Fiction. Missing persons > Investigation > Fiction. Secrecy > Fiction. Sexual minorities > Fiction. Minnesota > Fiction. |
Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. Novels. Gay fiction. |
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Ray County Library | F MOE (Text) | 2901851358 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Publishers Weekly Review
And There He Kept Her : A Novel
Publishers Weekly
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Moehling trods well-traveled ground in his lackluster debut set in Sandy Lake, Minn. Teens Jesse Crawford and Jenny Wheeler hope to score prescription painkillers by burglarizing the home of an old man they expected to be unconscious at 4:30 a.m. But the man, Emmett Burr, catches them and guns down Jesse and seriously wounds Jenny. Burr, who has created a room in his basement to hold women he's abducted before, confines Jenny there. The girl's disappearance alarms her mother, who contacts a cousin of hers, Ben Packard, the acting county sheriff. The story alternates between Packard's investigation and Jenny's peril, as she's threatened both by a creepy partner of her captor who raped his previous abductees and looming insulin shock. Packard's backstory--his male lover, a fellow cop, was killed on the job--and his current efforts to find solace with another man don't add anything to the by-the-numbers plot, and the characters come across more as types than people. Other writers have done a better job with the same setup. Agent: Barbara Poelle, Irene Goodman Agency. (June)