{"product_id":"9780374539191","title":"The Blue Place: A Novel (Aud Torvingen)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“I can’t rave enough about \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Place\u003c\/i\u003e. It just slayed me.”\u003cbr\u003e—Dennis Lehane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If Jack Reacher had a sister, she'd be Aud Torvingen . . . he would love her, but he'd be a little scared of her, too.\" \u003cbr\u003e―Lee Child\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAud Torvingen is a rangy six-footer with eyes the color of cement and the tendency to hurt people who get in her way. Born in Norway, a land of ice and snow, she now lives in Atlanta, luxuriating in the lush heat and brashness, gliding easily between the worlds of the elegant elite and the criminal underbelly, beautiful and functional as a folded razor. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn an April evening between thunderstorms, Aud turns a corner and collides with a running woman. She catches the scent of clean, rain-wet hair, thinks, \u003ci\u003eToday, you are lucky\u003c\/i\u003e, and moves on—and behind her a house explodes in a tiger lily of flames. When Aud turns back, the woman is gone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut the woman, Julia, returns, seeking Aud’s protection in a deadly international game of art forgery, drugs, money laundering, and murder. But Aud knows danger. \u003ci\u003eWhen danger sits opposite and offers you the dice, you should walk away. Danger loads the dice, it cheats.\u003c\/i\u003e But for Julia, Aud will play—and risk losing herself in that cool blue place where everything slows to crystal clarity and violence is bliss . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first book in Nicola Griffith’s beloved Aud trilogy, \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Place\u003c\/i\u003e reshapes the noir suspense novel into something refreshing and excitingly new.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43084727484477,"sku":"9780374539191","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374539191_p0.jpg?v=1775242809","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780374539191","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}