Amanda Cross: The Puzzled Heart (USA 1999)

From the Publisher:
Kate Fansler's husband, Reed, has been kidnapped--and will be killed unless Kate obeys the carefully delineated directives of a ransom note. Tormented by her own puzzled heart, Kate seeks solace and wise counsel from both old friends and new. But who precisely is the enemy? Is he or she a vengeful colleague? A hostile student? A terrorist sect? The questions mount as Kate searches for Reed -- accompanied by her trusty new companion, a Saint Bernard puppy named Bancroft. Hovering near Kate and Bancroft are rampant cruelties and calculated menace. The moment is ripe for murder.

Amanda Cross: The Puzzled Heart. A Kate Fansler Mystery. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 0345418840 (January, 1999), 242 p., $6.99.

Amanda Cross: The Puzzled Heart (USA 1998)

From the Publisher:
"Eminently readable and satisfying," said P. D. James about Amanda Cross's acclaimed New York mysteries featuring professor Kate Fansler.

Those accolades apply equally to The Puzzled Heart, in which Kate Fansler's husband, Reed, is kidnapped-and will be killed unless Kate obeys the carefully delineated directives of a ransom note.

Tormented by her own puzzled heart, Kate secks solace and wise counsel from both old friends and new. But who precisely is the enemy? Is he or she a vengeful colleague? A hostile student? A terror- ist sect? The questions mount as Kate searches for Reed accompanied by her trusty new compan- ion, a Saint Bernard puppy named Bancroft.

Hovering near Kate and Bancroft, almost within touch, are rampant cruelties and calculated menace. The madness of our time is on the move. And the moment is ripe for murder...

The elegant crime novels of Amanda Cross have thrilled a generation of readers. The Puzzled Heart reconfirms her standing as the reigning master of the literary mystery.

AMANDA CROSS is the pseudonymous author of the bestselling Kate Fansler mysteries, of which The Puzzled Heart is the twelfth.

As Carolyn G. Heilbrun, she is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities Emerita at Columbia University. She has served as president of the Modern Language Association as well as vice president of the Authors Guild. Dr. Heilbrun is also the author of Writing a Woman's Life, Hamlet's Mother and Other Women, The Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem, and, most recently, The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty.

Amanda Cross: The Puzzled Heart. A Kate Fansler Novel. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 0345418832 (January, 1998), 257 p., $21.00.