 A grisly double murder shocks a wealthy Pasadena community
Detective Nan Vining #2
Ballantine
February 2009
On Sale: January 24, 2009
Featuring: Nan Vining
400 pages
ISBN: 034548620X
EAN: 9780345486202
Paperback
$6.99
Mystery Police Procedural
The walls are covered in blood. Playboy Oliver Mercer has been brutally slain in his posh
home in the Pasadena hills, joined in death by his
long-legged trophy girlfriend—both not just killed, but
dismembered and displayed in a twisted, gruesome tableau.
The only evidence left at this helter skelter massacre: a
size-eleven high-heeled shoe print and a long strand of hair
from a blonde wig. The gory horror of the Mercer manse reawakens terrible
memories for homicide detective Nan Vining, who survived her
own harrowing knife attack a year earlier. Still feeling her
ruthless assailant’s hot breath on her neck, Nan breaks her
own rules and secretly tracks the taunting, murderous
gameplayer her daughter Emily dubbed T.B. Mann—the Bad Man. Putting it all on the line, she risks both her badge and her
heart. For working the case alongside single mom Nan is
appealing ex-flame Jim Kissick. With conflicted feelings for
him, Nan struggles to stay focused on the Mercer case, with
all its potential suspects. The male victim’s business partner was Mark Scoville, a
billboard tycoon with a destructive gambling problem.
Scoville’s wife is the ambitious bombshell of morning
television’s “Hello L.A,” famous for her gorgeous tears and
triumph over substance abuse. And circling the periphery on
his Harley is Bowie Crowley, the Zen-ful ex-con whose debut
novel transformed him from tattooed outcast to literary
toast of the town.
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