The Burn

Name: The Burn
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Kathleen Kent
ISBN: 9781549143298

Author: Kathleen Kent

Series: Detective Betty #2

Narrator: Christie Moreau

Unabridged: 10 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Mulholland Books

Published: 02/11/2020

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural, Women Sleuths, Suspense & Thriller, Crime

Synopsis

In this "deeply satisfying" thriller, Detective Betty Rhyzyk is up against a string of mysterious assassinations, an increasingly reckless partner, and her worst fear—desk duty—when she decides to go rogue . . . heading straight into the dark underworld of Dallas's most dangerous drug cartel (The Washington Post).

2021 Edgar Award Nominee - G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award Not much can make Detective Betty Rhyzyk flinch. But when forced into therapy, a desk assignment, and domestic bliss following a terrifying run-in with an apocalyptic cult, she’s having trouble readjusting to life as it once was. At home, she struggles to connect with her loving wife, Jackie. At work, someone has been assassinating confidential informants. To make matters worse, Betty’s partner seems to be increasingly dependent on the painkillers he was prescribed for injuries he sustained narrowly rescuing her.

Betty’s at the point of breaking when she decides to go rogue, on a chase that will lead her to the dark heart of a drug cartel terrorizing Dallas, and straight to the crooked cops who plan to profit from it all.

"A labyrinth of a police procedural punctuated by non-stop action . . . Gripping." —Associated Press

Reviews

Goodreads review by Madison on August 09, 2021

The Burn by Kathleen Kent 2nd book in the Detective Betty Rhyzyk series. Police procedural thriller. Gritty, dark and suspenseful. She’s not going to sit still while crime and drugs are surrounding her. The nightmares of the past won’t go away so she is willing to get help to both keep her job and he......more

Goodreads review by Howard on October 05, 2023

4.5 Stars for The Burn: Betty Rhyzyk, Book 2 (ebook) by Kathleen Kent. The Dallas Detective Betty Rhyzyk has just started back to work as she is still physically and mentally recovering from her injuries she had suffered previously. She is pushing herself to get back to normal but her work and perso......more

Goodreads review by Frank on June 23, 2023

This is the second book in Kent's trilogy featuring Betty Rhyzyk, a lesbian narcotics detective with the Dallas Police Department. I read and really enjoyed the first book, THE DIME, a couple of years ago and was really glad to finally get to read this one. In THE BURN, Rhyzyk is recovering from the......more

Goodreads review by The Shayne-Train on March 20, 2020

Damn, but Betty Rhyzyk is a bad-ass! This second outing is nearly as awesome as the first, which is to say still extremely awesome. The "trouble at home" tropes were wearing a little thin on me towards the end, but nothing I can't gladly overlook for how great the story is. Give me more!......more

Quotes

"Gripping . . . Briskly paced, The Burn barely allows the reader to take a breath as believable twists careen throughout."—Oline Cogdill, Associated Press

"Deeply satisfying . . . [Betty is] an obsessive, borderline unstable, fascinating, Brooklyn-born seeker of truth. . . . With Betty Rhyzyk, Kathleen Kent brings those mean streets to life as excitingly as anybody has in years."—The Washington Post

"Harsh, violent reality is the daily fare for Dallas police detective Betty Rhyzyk, the narrator of Kathleen Kent's satisfying The Burn."— The Wall Street Journal

"Kent's Dallas setting is so meticulously drawn that one can practically smell the streets, the sour odor of the street people. All of her characters are memorable, and not a single one, even the minor characters, is less than three dimensional."—NewYork Journal of Books

"A suspenseful mystery right up until the end --- and an effective exploration of trauma and its ongoing repercussions, not only for survivors but also for those who care about, and for, them."—BookReporter

"Kent continues to reinvent and subvert traditional noir expectations with the larger-than-life, damaged, courageous Betty. . . . Action-driven mystery anchored by dynamic, deep characters."—Kirkus Reviews (starred)

"A gripping, powerfully human procedural"—Booklist

PRAISE FOR THE DIME:
"Exciting [and] moving... Grisly but likable."—The Wall Street Journal

"Terrific... Kent's own ability to avoid predictable outcomes and keep the reader on edge bodes well for future installments in this series."—Chicago Tribune