Dust to Dust

by Tami Hoag

2002

Status

Available

Publication

Bantam Books (2002), Edition: 1st Printing

Description

Fiction. Romance. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:Sorry. The single word was written on a mirror. In front of it hung the Minneapolis Internal Affairs cop. Was it suicide? Or a kinky act turned tragic? Either way, it wasn�??t murder. At least not according to the powers that be. But veteran homicide detective Sam Kovac and his wisecracking, ambitious partner Nikki Liska think differently. Together they begin to dig at the too-neat edges of the young cop�??s death, uncovering one motive and one suspect after another. The shadows of suspicion fall not only on the city�??s elite, but into the very heart of the police department. Someone wants the case closed�??quickly and forever. But neither Kovac nor Liska will give up. Now both their careers and their lives are on the line. From a murder case two months old to another case closed for twenty years, Kovac and Liska must unearth a connection the killer wants dead and buried. A killer who will stop at absolutely nothing to keep a dark and shattering… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member JustAGirl

Okay, but suffers from being not as good as the greats. This is a police thriller set in Minneapolis and while gripping enough she's not as good at the police stuff as Michael Connelly and not as good with the sense of place in Minneapolis as John Sandford. But a good author to turn to while you're

waiting for one of the greats to write a new book.

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LibraryThing member tmbcoughlin

Classic Tami Hoag. The story pushes you along to get to who did it. Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska are the detectives on the case. Sam is your classic detective and you like him regardless of his short comings. Nikki Liska is your typical female trying to make it in a man's world. One of their own is

found hanging in his own home and it appears to be a suicide. These two detectives push to get answers and the story unfolds. Definately worth your time to read.

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LibraryThing member carfor12

This was an excellent murder mystery. It had me sitting on the edge of my seat until the very end.

LibraryThing member AliceAnna

Really pretty good. This one focused on the detectives Kovak and Liska from the previous book (Ashes to Ashes). I found these characters to be more real than the "flawed hero and heroine" from the prior book. Kovak and Liska were real to me. The plot was a little convoluted but it rang true and

didn't seem too contrived. Overall the book made me cold! December in Minneapolis ... who in their right mind? Oh, yeah, never mind.

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LibraryThing member TGPistole

Fine but seemed to drag

LibraryThing member Carol420

What if you had to try and make sense of the hanging of a young cop? What if that cop was an Internal Affairs investigator? And what if that IA detective was gay? And what if he was the son of a legend of the department? Tami Hoag does just this and more in "Dust To Dust", a follow up to her

previous book "Ashes To Ashes" if you want action and spell binding suspense that keeps you guessing, this is the book for you.

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LibraryThing member boredness

As I began this book, I knew it wasn't one that I would normally read. I'm not a fan of crime stories and I don't really like the way the author writes. But the next thing I knew, I was already in the middle of the book and didn't want to stop there. There were points in the book when I thought I

knew what was going on and who did the crime but then the next thing I knew, I was confused again. I don't know if that was a good thing or not. I didn't much like the end because I wanted a happy love story, but it was still a pretty good book. I enjoyed it more than I thought I was going to in the beginning.

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LibraryThing member Perednia

Well-crafted story of cops and their families. Huge improvement over first in the series; glad I continued on.

LibraryThing member gypsysmom

I thought this book was a good read. (It must have been since I spent my lunch hour reading the last 25 pages or so to find out who-dun-it.) I described the book as a little dark to the friend I've given it too and when she asked what I meant by that I said the characters were not happy, they were

depressed. However, I found them very realistic, not one-dimensional like the personae in some mystery novels. If I had to pick a favourite character it would be Sam Kovak, the male homicide detective. His partner, 'Tinks' Liska, is a single mom and her interactions with her kids were well done but I thought some of her decisions about pursuing the case were unrealistic.

The novel is set in Minneapolis just before Christmas. Some of the details about the festive season are very funny, like Kovak's neighbour's massive lighting display. It provides a nice counterpoint to the main action which deals with investigating the violent deaths of a police officer and his father.

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LibraryThing member bennyb

Quite a good detective story. Worth a read.

LibraryThing member nx74defiant

A pretty good mystery. I kept waiting for them to get proof the deaths were not suicides. The main thing that kept them looking was how much other people wanted them not to.

LibraryThing member juju2cat

I love police procedurals. This was an amazing book as Hoag's always are. I need to locate and read all her books.

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