Observation Hill - Jollymore, Tim

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Résumé :
Police Detective Paul Tuomi has his hands full: He has just been assigned the highest profile murder case of his career, is in the middle of investigating the strange death of a family member, and is about to cross the line on a long ago failed marriage. Paul's love of his working-class beginnings-embodied his involvement with his high school sweetheart and her son-and bond with his private detective father who lives under the cloud of a 40 year-old bootlegging murder fray the ties he's made with the city's old patrician elite. Paul can set to right his own life only if he can solve the puzzles of the deaths of three others. Complicating the already complicated is Tuomi's nemesis, Ingstrom, a teenage crime-magnet from the toney side of town. Out east, with pressure from the powerful and the press to arrest the black sheep of the murdered heiress's family, Paul is pushed to disregard eye-witness fact and bring to heel his west end sensibilities or face demotion on his job, the end of his marriage, and the loss of his long-time lover. He learns that the key to everything lies in catching the illusive Ingstrom.

Biographie:
Tim Jollymore grew up next to the swamps, forests, and Indian reservations of northern Minnesota, the setting of his first novel. He spent his working life as a tree planter, pulp peeler, local historian, traveling salesman, and corporate manager. After migrating to California, he pursued residential design, contracting, and the teaching of English. Jollymore earned his master's degree in literature at the University of Minnesota. He has also studied architecture and education.
Since leaving the teaching of writing and American literature in 2011, he has devoted his time to fiction and drama, writing a five-act play, completing three novels and numerous short stories, reviews, essays. He posts to his review blog, www.Jollymore.wordpress.com, frequently and has written several travel blogs.
During summer, he camps across the western states to visit extended family in northern Minnesota. Otherwise, he writes in Oakland, California and shares free time with his sleepyhead, artist companion, Carol. He lives in northern California nearby his grown children, one of whom writes. When he can, Jollymore yells and screams along with his Viking grandson.
Jollymore's fiction explores struggles of identity and loss in American society from the viewpoint of the under and working classes. Though these contests-sometimes mysterious and often fierce- play out in spare, natural settings and every day, domestic life, they are marked by unusual, compelling events.

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