The Ties That Bind Warren Adler | ISBN : 1-931304-44-0

The Ties That Bind

Author: Warren Adler

Publisher: Stonehouse Press

Publication Date: 01 January, 2001

ISBN: 9781931304443

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Description:

Even judges must be judged. The daughter of a prominent lawyer is found murdered, and a Supreme Court Justice with a sado-machocistic fetish is the target of Fiona FitzGerald's investigation. This is one case that brings Fiona to the darker side of the Washington scene in which sexual aberration and fear of exposure plays a role in murder.

PW Publishers Weekly

Review Source: Publishers Weekly

Review Date: 1994-03-28

Adler's newest mystery featuring Washington, D.C., cop Fiona FitzGerald, last seen in The Witch of Watergate , is a forceful story sandwiched between a sanctimonious start and a sensationalized ending. The death of a young woman found bound and sexually abused in a hotel room spurs Fiona and her new partner, the statuesque, African American Gail Prentiss, to a chapter of female commiseration. Like Fiona and Gail, the dead woman was socially connected and drop-dead beautiful. The manner of death leads the puritanical Gail to a young lawyer known to lean towards rough sex. But the killing strikes a deeper emotion in Fiona, as the graffiti-adorned body of the girl bears a striking resemblance to her own flesh following a kinky session with her former lover Farley Lipscomb, who is now a Supreme Court Associate Justice. Although the list of suspects is scant, Adler deftly blends in other plot ingredients; now deeply ambivalent about submissive/dominant sex, Fiona's desire for revenge against Farley impairs both her partnership with Gail and the investigation. The blockbuster ending, although prepared for by the earlier whips-and-chains material, has an exaggerated, comics-like tone, leaving this tale flawed in the places that count the most in crime fiction. (May)