Background
Friedman, Mickey was born on August 30, 1944 in Dothan, Alabama, United States. Daughter of Carl Clinton Thompson and Laura Lee (Allen) Geddie.
(Ten years ago, Marina Robinson followed her younger siste...)
Ten years ago, Marina Robinson followed her younger sister Catherine to an ashram in India to save her from her blind devotion to Nagarajan, a mystical guru. But Catherine was killed in a tragic fire and Marina returned home alone. Now Marina is an engineer for Breakdown, Inc., a San Francisco firm that fixes blame -- for a fee -- when something goes wrong. Something like the fatal collapse of the Loopy Doop ride at Fun World Amusement Park. To begin work on this, her most important case, Marina must construct a fault tree -- a diagram for determining cause and effect. Then, just as she's nearing a solution, Marina's life -- which she's carefully constructed to block out the past -- is disrupted by a mysterious series of messages. From India. From someone who knows things about her that only Catherine knew. Or knows. Could Catherine still be alive? Abandoning the Loopy Doop project and rushing to India, Marina is drawn into a perilous and macabre chase that forces her to confront long-buried questions about Catherine, the guru, the ashram, the fire -- and the fault tree of her own life.
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(This is a collection of short mysteries by a group of bes...)
This is a collection of short mysteries by a group of bestselling and award winning authors known as the Adams Round Table. This time they take up the subject of justice. What is it? Who has the right to dole it out? Who deserves to die for it? Unforgettable characters, set in New York's Manhattan, each story contains chills, thrills, and perhaps the shock of recognition. The authors are Mickey Friedman, Justin Scott, Joyce Harrington, Stanley Cohen, Lucy Freeman, Judith Kelman, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Thomas Chastain, Warren Murphy, and Mary Higgins Clark.
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(A young New York illustrator leaves behind a promising ca...)
A young New York illustrator leaves behind a promising career and returns to her hometown in the Florida panhandle to help the great-aunt who raised her resolve a puzzling series of events suddenly plaguing their decaying family home.
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(Georgia Lee Maxwell takes on more than she bargained for ...)
Georgia Lee Maxwell takes on more than she bargained for when she agrees to ghostwrite the memoirs of a New York society hostess, accused of killing her husband, but never charged. Trapped in a remote farmhouse with some very dubious characters, her country idyll is soon disrupted by murder.
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(Georgia Lee Maxwell, is more than ready to take a break f...)
Georgia Lee Maxwell, is more than ready to take a break from her job in Paris, contributing the Paris Patter Column to a New York magazine, when she is offered the chance to ghostwrite a book in Provence; her initial curiousity is further aroused when she discovers the person hiring her is vivien Howard, the widow of a wealthy new Yorker, accused of being her husbands killer - but never charged. Once in Provence, Georgia Lee finds a house full of suspicious characters: Vivien's handsome artist boyfriend, Ross: her seemingly terrified young daughter, Blanch, and spoiled son, Alexander; finally, Pedro Ruiz, Vivien's mysterious assistant. Torn by doubts about her ability to write the book Vivien desires, and frightened by threating anonymous letters, Georgia Lee finds she must also contend with her cat, Twinkie, who is quietly destroying her friends apartment back in Paris - and then, of course, there's Murder.
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(Ten best-selling, Edgar Award-winning mystery writers, me...)
Ten best-selling, Edgar Award-winning mystery writers, members of the New York-based Adams Round Table, offer baffling cases of unsolved murder in the Big Apple.
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(From Kirkus: "Marina Robinson, a top investigator with ""...)
From Kirkus: "Marina Robinson, a top investigator with ""Breakdown, Inc."" in California (""we're engineers who investigate why things go wrong""), is hard at work on a challenging case: Why did the Loopy Doop ride collapse at Fun World? Was there negligence in maintenance--or some weakness in the metal itself? Then, however, Marina becomes increasingly distracted from her work--when she starts receiving cryptic notes, even a blurry phone call, from her younger sister Catherine in India. . .who's been dead for ten years! Could Catherine somehow be alive, despite evidence that she died in an ashram fire? Marina must find out--so, dropping the Loopy Doop case, she's off to Bombay, as flashbacks start to fill in the 1970s story: Catherine's involvement in a quasi-Hindu, serpent-worshipping cult; Marina's trip to India to bring Catherine back; the riot of locals against the heretical cult--ending in the ashram fire and the reported suicide of sexy cult-leader Nagarajan (who seduced Marina too). Meanwhile, in present-day Bombay, guilt-ridden Marina tries to track down the source of those letters and phone-calls--with help from young Indian Vijay, a prim watchdog from the nervous American Embassy. Their sleuthing soon suggests that cult-leader Nagarajan may still be alive; in fact, Marina and Vijay (budding lovers) are then kidnapped by Nagarajan's criminal gang. And finally, after a showdown and shootout with evil, charismatic Nagarajan, Marina can return home--without Catherine or Vijay, but with her old sexual guilts exorcised. . . and still be in time to explain the Loopy Doop disaster, fingering the culprit who sent her on the India wild-goose chase. An odd, half-satisfying blend of hackneyed romantic-suspense, tinny psychology (serpentine phallic symbols, etc.), and okay mystery--with some of the charm (if little of the humor) that made Friedman's mystery-debut, Hurricane Season, such an offbeat winner."
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(Mickey Friedman, the widely acclaimed author of "Paper Ph...)
Mickey Friedman, the widely acclaimed author of "Paper Phoenix", "The Fault Tree" and "Hurricane Season", returns with her most compelling, accomplished novel yet. Carnival has been resuscitated in all its decadent glory in recent years, and the annual festival of drinking, dancing, and revelry is now the ultimate tourist attraction. WHAT BETTER PLACE TO SHAKE OFF THE WINTER DOLDRUMS? And in that luscious, heady setting, what better place to lose yourself in disguise, to be the person you've always imagined you could be - and perhaps to discover who you really are? Six friends think they know each other so well. But how well can anyone really know anyone else? The friends devise an innocent game that will give them the answer, and they choose Carnival as the perfect setting to play it out. Each will secretly design a costume that represents his or her "own true self"; then they'll meet in disguise at the festival to see if they can identify one another. Will they be able to penetrate each other's disguise? The game gathers a horrible momentum all its own when one of the players is murdered - by someone in the group. Reality suddenly becomes a moot point when no one is who he or she appears to be, when stripping away one disguise only reveals another. Before Carnival is over, the remaining five friends will find their lives irrevocable entangled as they discover strange new truths about themselves and their friendships - if they can stay alive. This haunting, nightmarish, yet hypnotic novel will hold you tightly in its grasp right up to its heart-racing climax. The evocation of Venice in all its splendor and decay, and a plot rich with surprise and invention make this the author's most powerful, thrilling work to date. With "Venetian Mask", Mickey Friedman joins the top rank of suspense writers.
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Friedman, Mickey was born on August 30, 1944 in Dothan, Alabama, United States. Daughter of Carl Clinton Thompson and Laura Lee (Allen) Geddie.
Bachelor in English, Florida State University, 1966; Master of Arts in English, Florida State University, 1968.
Editorial assistant, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 1968-1969; staff editor, Hiram (Ohio) College, 1970-1972; freelance writer to various publications, San Francisco, 1973-1977; reporter, columnist, San Francisco Examiner, 1977-1983.
(Georgia Lee Maxwell, is more than ready to take a break f...)
(A young New York illustrator leaves behind a promising ca...)
(Georgia Lee Maxwell takes on more than she bargained for ...)
(Georgia Lee Maxwell takes on more than she bargained for ...)
(When Isabel Anders ran away to New York as a teenager she...)
(Mickey Friedman, the widely acclaimed author of "Paper Ph...)
(Ten best-selling, Edgar Award-winning mystery writers, me...)
(Ten years ago, Marina Robinson followed her younger siste...)
(This is a collection of short mysteries by a group of bes...)
(From Kirkus: "Marina Robinson, a top investigator with ""...)
(Book by Friedman, Mickey)
(Book by Friedman, Mickey)
(A NOVEL WITH MURDER)
Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Mystery Writers American (board directors 1989-1993), Authors Guild, International Association Crime Writers, Sisters in Crime.
Married Alan Jacob Friedman, December 26, 1966.