Die Smiling
Linda Ladd

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November 4, 2008

Claire Morgan #3
Kensington
August 2008
On Sale: August 1, 2008
Featuring: Claire Morgan
352 pages
ISBN: 0786018879
EAN: 9780786018871
Kindle: B001B8NWFU
Paperback / e-Book
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Thriller Serial Killer | Thriller Police Procedural

Claire Morgan is again trying to solve a gruesome murder in the supposedly quiet Ozarks.

DIE YOUNG. . .

Hilde Swenson is a beauty pageant queen with a face to die for and a body to kill for. But by the time Detective Claire Morgan finds her in a shower stall—posed like a grotesquely grinning doll—Hilde is anything but pretty. She’s the victim of a sick, deranged killer. And she won’t be the last…

DIE BEAUTIFUL. . .

Brianna Swenson is the beauty queen’s sister—and the girlfriend of Claire’s partner Bud. She tells Claire that Hilde had plenty of enemies, including a creepy stalker, an abusive ex-boyfriend, and a slew of jealous competitors. But what she doesn’t say is that they both shared a dark, disturbing secret.

A secret that refuses to die…

DIE SMILING. . .

From the after-hours parties of a sinister funeral home to the underworld vendettas of the Miami mob, Claire follows the trail with her lover Nicholas Black, a psychiatrist with secrets of his own. But it’s not until she uncovers evidence of unspeakable acts of depravity that Claire realizes she’s just become a diabolical killer’s next target…