# A String of Beads - Paperback

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by **Thomas Perry** (Author)

**The Native American rescue artist goes back on the job in "another excellently engineered thriller" from the _New York Times_\-bestselling mystery author (Marilyn Stasio, _The New York Times Book Review_).**

After two decades protecting innocent victims on the run, and a year after getting shot on the job, Jane McKinnon, néeacute;e Whitefield, has settled into the quiet life of a suburban housewife in Amherst, New York. But that all changes when she sees all eight female leaders of the Tonawanda Seneca clan parked in her driveway in two black cars.

Jimmy, a childhood friend of Jane's from the reservation, has been accused of murdering a local white man. But instead of turning himself in, he's fled, and no one knows where he's hiding. At the clan mothers' request, Jane retraces a walking trip she and Jimmy took together when they were fourteen in hopes that he has gone the same way again. But it turns out the police are the least of Jimmy's problems, and soon enough Jimmy and Jane are on the run together in this "first-rate suspense" novel from the Edgar Award-winning author (_Booklist_, starred review).

"Whitefield is an indelible figure-whip-smart, resourceful, brave and big-hearted." --_The Seattle Times_

"Jane Whitefield is unique in the annals of detective fiction. She is a throwback to a tribal world, still loyal to the beliefs of the Seneca Indians and still adhering to the call of a lost era. Thomas Perry has once again resurrected a remarkable character who seems imbued with a strange immortality and an unusual morality, and he is to be congratulated." --_The Washington Times_

### Author Biography

**Thomas Perry** is the bestselling author of over twenty novels including _The Butcher's Boy_, which won an Edgar Award. _Metzger's Dog_ was a _New York Times_ Notable Book of the Year, and _Vanishing Act_ was named by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association as one of their 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Twentieth Century. He lives in Southern California.

**Number of Pages:** 400

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN

**Publication Date:** December 15, 2015

## Details

- **Price:** 27.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Crime, Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Price Written on Book, Suspense, Thrillers, Women Sleuths

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