num_pages: 304
description: Brooklyn prosecutor Andrew Giobberti can remember himself as a father, as a husband, and as the chief of the Homicide Bureau in the District Attorney's office in one of a hard city’s hardest precincts.That was before his car accident which took his daughter's life but left him untouched—except where it really matters, upstairs. That was before his wife walked out. That was before he became mired in blame and regret that, for a year, emptied his life of all meaning and purpose. Everyone wrote him off as too far gone to save.Then a case crosses Gio’s desk—the murder of a young teenage girl—that may change everything. Through one impossibly hot August, he confronts the fine line that separates the guilty from the innocent, and the killers from those who put them away. As he seeks the girl’s killer, the truth he uncovers may be the final hit. Or it may give him back his life.Librarian's note: this is one of two volumes in the author's Giobberti series. They are: 1. Hollowpoint (2001), and 2. Semiautomatic (2004).
language: English
title: Hollowpoint
titlecomplete: Hollowpoint (Andrew Giobberti #1)
characters: Opal Giobberti, Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre (Hollowpoint), Johnny Carson (Hollowpoint), Detective Anthony Lubriano, Milton Echeverria, Lamar Lamb, Utopia Carbon, Nick Faldo (Hollowpoint), Malcolm X (Hollowpoint), Ann the Medical Examiner, Stacey Sharp, Nina (Hollowpoint), Andrew Giobberti, Amanda Giobberti, Orlando (Hollowpoint), Queen Nefertiti (Hollowpoint), Mrs. Kretschmer, Miss Iris, LL's grandmother, Ralph Waldo Emmerson (Hollowpoint), Detective Ralph Archer from F.A.S., Steve Solano, Judge Harbison, Dirty Dread, Phil Bloch, Heather and Karen, Holly Nilsson, Conrad Gufner, Nicole Carbon, Kayla Harris
genres: Mystery, Fiction
ratings_count: 106
places: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, Manhattan, New York City, New York
series: Andrew Giobberti #1, Andrew Giobberti
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Hammett Prize, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Gumshoe Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: Ballantine Books