num_pages: 348
description: A long-distance call from a Texas city on his birthday gives Benjamin Dill the news that his sister—it's her birthday, too, they were born exactly ten years apart—has died in a car bomb explosion. It's the chief of police calling—Felicity Dill worked for him; she was a homicide detective. Dill is there that night, the beginning of his dogged search for her killer. What he finds is no surprise to him, because Benjamin Dill is never surprised at what awful things people will do—but it's a real surprise to the reader. As Newsday said when the novel was first published, "One sure thing about Ross Thomas's novels: A reader won't get bored waiting for the action to start."
language: English
title: Briarpatch
titlecomplete: Briarpatch
genres: 20th Century, Crime, Suspense, Novels, Hard Boiled, Thriller, Noir, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 1654
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Deutscher Krimi Preis
category: 1. Platz International
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin