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My third book is "A Cold Case", by Philip Gourevitch.

SETTING -
 * "Glennon agreed, and phoned McGinn to say they were coming over to his place, which was a block north of Channel Seven, in what the next day's //News// described as a 'Luxury apartment building... just up the street from Gov. Rockefeller's New York office.'" (Pg. 8)
 * "TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS LATER, on January 6, 1997, Andy Rosenzweig, the chief of investigation for the district attorney of Manhattan, was driving up First Avenue, nosing through lunch hour traffic, on his way to New York Hospital for a stress test." (Pg.11)
 * "Back home, in the leafy, predominatly Jewish neighborhood of Bronx Park East." (Pg.14)

CHARACTERIZATION - PLOT -
 * "Glennon lay on his back with his legs crossed comfortably at his ankles, his overcoat and suit jacket twisted beneath him, his left arm flung out, and the left side of his shirt bunched and soaked in blood from shoulder to waist around a small round hole over his rib cage." (Pg. 9)
 * "His girlfriend didn't notice that Pete McGinn wa at the far end of the room, clad in only a bathrobe, with his right foot in a slipper and his left foot bare, lying facedown and dead in a puddle of blood on the parquet floor." (Pg. 9)
 * "That was Glennon: through the deception, he had made himself known -- always a kidder, always coming on as a big shot, always puttingo ne over, an impersonator, always on the move. His hands in particular were never idle, flickering about to the syncopated rhythms of his speech, striking a range of distractiong poses. (Pg. 13)
 * "His father, a Polish-born cabdriver, and his mother, a Brooklyn-born professional secretary, wanted him to go to college. (he had and IQ of 158) But Rosenzweig was restless; classrooms opposed him; his mind resisted abstraction, and he elt most at ease among the older, streetwise cops and constructuion workers who made up the core of his crowed at the Miramar." (Pg. 14- 15)
 * "Lynchwas no slouch himself. In 1956, as a twenty-one-year-old police rookie just back from military service in Korea, he was made a detective -- the youngest ever in the city -- after displaying extraordinary reflexes under extraordinary pressure." (Pg. 15)
 * "He himself was fifty-two; his three childeren were grown; he had recently married his third wife, Mary Kelley, who worked with his at the DA's officeas the masters of computer searches;they had just bought a weekend house together on the Rhode Island shore; and as he was beginning, warily, to comptemplate retirement. (Pg. 19)
 * "ON NOVEMEBER 15, 1944, an Army deserter named Frank Gilbert Koehler was arrested for burglary in New York City." (Pg. 3)
 * "He was released on May 17, 1950, and remaind a free man for nine months and twenty-six days until he was found by police, at four in the morning, hiding on the catwalk between the tracks of the Third Avenue elevated train line at Thirty-fourth Street, after robbing a nearby bar and grill at gunpoint." (Pg.4)
 * "Frankie Koehler was running away with his smoking gun. I said, "Where's Richie?" There was Richie on the floor." (Pg. 8)
 * "He took the elevator down to the lobby, fished a handkerchief from his pocket, and pretended to be cough into it to hide his face as he walked past the doorman. And then Frankie Koehler dissapeared." (Pg. 9)
 * "I shot him six times. You know how many times I hit him? Twice. Once in the heart -- he had a tattoo of a heart on his heart -- once in the knee. The others passed through his clothing, and our noses were touching, so I guess I was frightened. He was dead by the time his head was by my knees." (Pg. 16-17)
 * "Although New York has and 87 percent closure rate for murder cases. Rosenzweig believed that murdered people and their survivors deserved even better statistics." (Pg. 20)
 * "A few day later, he sent a man from his homicide unti up to the Midtown North Station house to collect the old filed on Koehler. The sergat there knew Rosenzweig, and he said, 'Hey, ask Andy why he's looking into this. This case is closed. This guy's dead." (Pg. 22-23)