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a masterful debut crime novel?the first in a stunning new series in contemporary suspense?that brilliantly mines the worlds of forensic science and law and introduces an irresistible crime-fighting team.
Knopf
August 2005
Featuring: Dr. Jake Rosen; Philomena “Manny” Manfreda
240 pages ISBN: 1400044197 Hardcover
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From Michael Baden (former New York City chief medical
examiner, chief forensic pathologist for the New York State
Police and for the U.S. Congress investigations into the
assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin
Luther King, Jr., and host of the hit HBO series Autopsy)
and Linda Kenney (civil rights attorney and guest legal
commentator on Court TV, CNN, and MSNBC), a masterful debut
crime novel–the first in a stunning new series in
contemporary suspense–that brilliantly mines the worlds of
forensic science and law and introduces an irresistible
crime-fighting team.
Philomena “Manny” Manfreda is a crusading attorney for the
disenfranchised. Five years out of law school, with an
apartment not much bigger than one of her beloved Prada
shoe boxes and a burgeoning reputation as one of the city’s
fiercest litigators, Manny is an unabashed shopaholic who
changes her hair color weekly, carries her poodle, Mycroft,
everywhere, and whose idea of therapy is the preparation of
an eight-course Italian meal. Dr. Jake Rosen is the deputy chief medical examiner of New
York City, a confirmed workaholic and bachelor who lives
alone in an oversized nineteenth-century Manhattan
brownstone littered with morbid memorabilia and forensic
artifacts, and who divides his life between the autopsy
table and Chinese takeout. When a body is unearthed beneath the construction site of a
mall near the Catskill Mountains, Jake is called to the
scene by his elderly mentor, Dr. Pete Harrigan, to examine
the bones. Further investigation reveals a gruesome
discovery: additional skeletal remains with striking
abnormalities. After one of the victims is identified, the
family of the deceased retains Manny to represent them,
and, with Jake, she is swept into a terrifying vortex of
murder and deceit, where a mounting body count hides both a
shocking cover-up and a devastating love story. A chilling debut that introduces a major new voice in crime
fiction.
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