Risking Elizbeth

By Walter Mccloskey

Like the works of James Lee Burke and John Berendt, this spellbinding novel by Walter McCloskey shows us the physical and psychological violence that lies just beneath the veneer of southern hospitality. Lawyer Harry Preston thought he knew New Orleans. As a boy he spent summers there, and now--after his wife's murder--he's come back to the city of his youth to grieve privately and raise his son. But when Harry falls for the fatally beautiful socialite Elizabeth Bennett, he descends into a world of scandal and corruption and decadence that had never been part of his New Orleans...until now.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425164136
• ISBN13: 9780425164136
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.1" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

awesome

Mr. McCloskey is my english teacher and he is awesome! Buy this book, it rocks my socks off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I haven't read it, but........

Mr. McCloskey is my current English teacher. He is an excellent teacher and I'm sure that his writing is excellent because he teaches us to write well. It sounds like his book is good and yes, there is going to be a sequel.

Worth the Risk!

How I loved the characters and how their stories unfold and intertwine! So well written, I could visualize the neighborhoods and settings and feel the moods of the characters as well as envision their surroundings. It's as the jacket describes: we sense the physical and psychological violence that lies just beneath the veneer of southern hospitality. Surely there's a sequel in the making. Even if not a sequel to RISKING ELIZABETH, I look forward to Mr. McCloskey's next novel.

Worth the Risk!

How I loved the characters and how their stories unfold and intertwine! So well written, I could visualize the neighborhoods and settings and feel the moods of the characters as well as envision their surroundings. It's as the jacket describes: we sense the physical and psychological violence that lies just beneath the veneer of southern hospitality. Surely there's a sequel in the making. Even if not a sequel to RISKING ELIZABETH, I look forward to Dr. McCloskey's next novel.