Dell
September 2005
On Sale: September 6, 2005
Featuring: Nic Costa; Teresa Lupo
480 pages ISBN: 0440242371 EAN: 9780440242376 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
In Rome’s crowded Campo dei Fiori, a woman rushes up to two
carabinieri lounging in their sunglasses and uniforms,
insisting that her sixteen-year-old daughter has just been
abducted. Detective Nic Costa sees the scene unfold and
intervenes. Because Costa knows what the two officers
don’t: that in the morgue at Rome’s police headquarters, a
forensic pathologist is examining the strange, mummified
corpse of another
girl, whose disappearance and death bear haunting
similarities….
Police pathologist Teresa Lupo is Nic’s colleague, friend,
and his only equal when it comes to breaking the rules to
get results, whatever the cost. Now, after years of living
with the dead, Teresa insists that her superiors move
quickly to save a life. Poring over the body of the girl in
the morgue, she has found too many similarities between the
girls, including a unique, leering tattoo. Lupo is sure
that the vanished girl is headed for a bizarre ancient
Bacchanalia involving virgins and sacrificial murder–a
ritual that is only days away.
As Nic and Teresa claw at the case from two sides–and as
Nic finds himself at once puzzled and beguiled by the
missing girl’s seductive mother–a chilling picture is
beginning to emerge…of secret relationships and sexual
depravity, organized crime and unimaginable corruption.
With the clock ticking down on a young girl’s life, Nic and
Teresa are about to make the most horrifying discovery of
all–in a pit of human darkness, where an age-old
malevolence still endures, evil has consumed innocence…and
a very modern vengeance has begun.
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