Independently wealthy former police officer Aud Torvingen
has just traveled to Seattle to deal with an unscrupulous
property manager and also to meet her mother's new husband.
Aud is unsure of this reunion with her mother since their
relationship has always been somewhat distant. Most likely
due in part to her mother's journey up the ladder of
Norwegian politics and her duties as an ambassador. The
property manager would be easier to deal with if only Aud
was in her element in Atlanta. Seattle is foreign territory
to her and she needs to get her bearings quickly to assess
the situation.
Flashback chapters show the weekly meeting of a self-defense
class for women that Aud taught in Atlanta. As each lesson
occurs, we learn more about each woman, her reasons for
attending the class and her fears. Throughout the lessons,
they learn how to overcome the constraints society places on
women and how to not be a victim. But will the lessons be
enough when one of them is tested in real life?
There seems to be more to the shady business dealings in
Seattle than is apparent on the surface. Will Aud be able to
use her police background to unearth the reasons behind the
sabotage occurring on a movie set in one of her buildings?
How will dealing with her mother and her mother's new
husband affect her investigations? And will Aud's attraction
toward the set's caterer distract her from what's really
happening? Coming one year after the death of Aud's last
serious lover, Julia, will this budding relationship bear fruit?
ALWAYS has an unusual format. The chapters alternate between
present-day events in Seattle and recent events from the
self-defense class in Atlanta. The events in the two
settings mirror each other, leading to dual crescendos at
the very end. Ms. Griffith's novel is richly worded with
very evocative visuals of the two settings. Third in the Aud
Torvingen series, this book can be followed by readers new
to the series as I was. An enjoyable book for lovers of
gritty mystery fiction.
From cult phenomenon to award-winning literary sensation,
"the sexiest action figure since James Bond" (Seattle
Weekly) returns in an exhilarating new thriller.
It doesn't matter how well trained you are,
how big, how fast, how strong; there will always be someone
out there bigger or faster or stronger. Always.
That's what Aud Torvingen teaches the students in
her self-defense class. But the question is whether Aud
really believes this lesson herself-and if not, what it will
take for her to learn it.
Aud has trained
herself to achieve a fierce, machine-like precision, in
hand-to-hand combat as well as life. But in Always she is
abruptly confronted with the limits of her own power. Her
self-defense classes spin violently out of her grasp and,
still reeling from the consequences, she embarks on a
seemingly simple investigation of Seattle real estate fraud
that pulls her into something far more complicated and
dangerous than she had imagined.
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