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“Terrific…Kent’s own ability to avoid predictable outcomes and keep the reader on edge bodes well for future installments in this series.”
— Chicago Tribune
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“Gripping…Briskly paced, The Burn barely allows the reader to take a breath as believable twists careen throughout.”
— Associated Press
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“Kent continues to reinvent and subvert traditional noir expectations with the larger-than-life, damaged, courageous Betty…Action-driven mystery anchored by dynamic, deep characters.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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A suspenseful
mystery right up until the end --- and an effective exploration of trauma and
its ongoing repercussions, not only for survivors but also for those who care
about, and for, them.
— BookReporter
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Kent continues to reinvent and subvert traditional noir expectations with the larger-than-life, damaged, courageous Betty. . . . Action-driven mystery anchored by dynamic, deep characters.
— Kirkus Reviews (starred)
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A gripping, powerfully human procedural
— Booklist
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Terrific... Kent's own ability to avoid predictable outcomes and keep the reader on edge bodes well for future installments in this series.
— Chicago Tribune
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Harsh, violent reality is the daily fare for Dallas police detective Betty Rhyzyk, the narrator of Kathleen Kent's satisfying The Burn.
— The Wall Street Journal
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Kent's Dallas setting is so meticulously drawn
that one can practically smell the streets, the sour odor of the street people.
All of her characters are memorable, and not a single one, even the minor
characters, is less than three dimensional.
— NewYork Journal of Books
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Gripping . . . Briskly paced, The Burn barely allows the reader to take a breath as believable twists careen throughout.
— Oline Cogdill, Associated Press
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Deeply satisfying . . . [Betty is] an obsessive, borderline unstable, fascinating, Brooklyn-born seeker of truth. . . . With Betty Rhyzyk, Kathleen Kent brings those mean streets to life as excitingly as anybody has in years.
— The Washington Post