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The Sooty Man | 
 enlarge | Author: Steven Rudd
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Category: Book
Buy New: $15.99
New (3) Used (5) from $14.50
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1682712
Media: Paperback
Pages: 350
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.3 x 1
ISBN: 1419633724
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781419633720
ASIN: 1419633724
Publication Date: June 19, 2006
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'With a character as richly unconventional and fascinating as Van Zant, we can only hope that Rudd will have her back on a new case soon.' New York Time [italics] bestselling author Ellen Tanner Marsh, on Midnight Red [italics] 'Kris is quite a character, in both senses of the word.' Carroll Dale Short, author of The Shining Shining Path [italics] and Turbo's Very Life [italics] 'Rudd wraps her powerhouse intellect and powers of observation in a petite frame.' Suzanne Dreitlein, Morbid Outlook [italics] Magazine Fresh from her face-off with the 'Atlanta Vampire' serial killer, forensic psychiatrist Kristin Van Zant takes on the case of a long-missing heiress, a family curse straight out of the Old South, and serial beheadings in an Alabama town, plus Bigfoot's Appalachian cousin, the Sooty Man. Author of the cult phenomenon Midnight Red [italics], Steven Rudd is a sixth-generation Alabamian, a Harvard-grad physician and a sometime lawyer. He lives in Birmingham.
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 The detective for the twenty-first century. March 19, 2007
The greatest detective of the nineteenth century was Sherlock Holmes. The twentieth century saw a series of detectives, men such as Sam Spade and Christopher Marlowe. The twenty-first century has finally produced a detective of this caliber. Kris Van Zant is a medical doctor, a forensic psychiatrist, who knows the evil that exists in the human mind. She is, like most Americans, pathologically friendly; "Call me Kris, everybody does." She is not without weaknesses; flying in a helicopter produces a panic attack. But her expertise, mixed with boldness and verve, makes her the leading detective to appear in the twenty-first century so far. Holmes was from London and the twentieth century detectives from California, but the new center for the detection of evil is the heart of old Dixie, Georgia and Alabama. The Sooty Man is a great story that showcases the talent of this newest leading detective.
 Extremely entertaining! October 2, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Sooty Man is the second of Steven Rudd's novels about the forensic psychiatrist, Chris Van Zant. In the first novel, Midnight Red, Chris was introduced as a young woman with a special talent for understanding the deviant mind. In The Sooty Man, her personality is further developed as she works on a case of a ten year old murder and the elusive forest dweller who is presumed to be the murderer. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. Dr. Rudd has developed a main character who I look forward to meeting again.
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