A detective is out to find the truth when a judge becomes the key suspect in a series of brutal murders of men who abused their wives.
Leisure
September 2005
On Sale: August 30, 2005
Featuring: Carole Cranston; Nina Preston; Ray Barkley
368 pages ISBN: 0843955627 EAN: 9780843955620 Paperback Add to Wish List
Male batterers of women are being beaten to death by a bat
wielding female vigilante. Each victim had recently been on
trial for domestic violence-related charges, but was set
free through plea bargains, technicalities, or acquittal.
Two Portland Police Bureau Detectives--Sergeant Ray Barkley
and his partner Detective Nina Parker--investigate the
killings. Among the list of suspects is Criminal Court
Judge Carole Cranston, who presided over the trials of all
the victims and has dark secrets she is in no hurry to
share.
Barkley soon develops an attraction to the beautiful
Carole, and vice versa, even as the case heats up and more
signs begin to point toward Carole as the serial murderess
the press has dubbed The Vigilante Batterer Killer.
Nina, who had a brief affair with Barkley, is determined to
prove that Carole is the killer.
As the body count rises, no one seems safe. In the end, all
the pieces come together in an exciting, page turning
whodunit and why.
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