“Stay is simply gorgeous—a powerful character study in the rough domain of mystery and adventure.”
“Griffith employs a crime thriller’s page-turning audacity and hard-boiled heroine without succumbing to cheap genre clichés. Like the protagonist, the language has a steely snap to it…. Stay is a captivating read.”
“Aud, the protagonist of this novel, is an intuitive, old-fashioned sleuth who would do Elmore Leonard proud.”
“Griffith’s prose is at once brutal and beautifully wrought. Stay has a central character both hardboiled and a softie at heart, and momentum like a car wreck.”
Copyright
FIRST VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD EDITION, JUNE 2003
Copyright © 2002 by Nicola Griffith
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Nan A. Talese, an imprint of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2002.
Vintage is a registered trademark and Vintage Crime/Black Lizard and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Nan A. Talese/Doubleday edition as follows:
Griffith, Nicola.
Stay : a novel / Nicola Griffith.—1st ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-4000-7561-4
1. Police—Georgia—Atlanta—Fiction. 2. Atlanta (Ga.)—Fiction. 3. Policewomen—Fiction. 4. Lesbians—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3557.R48935 S73 2002
813’.54—dc21 2001052474
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