Detective Nan Vining #3
Ballantine
March 2009
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Featuring: Nan Vining
400 pages ISBN: 0345499522 EAN: 9780345499523 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Back from the dead. Thatβs how it feels for Nan Viningβa Pasadena homicide cop, a struggling single mother, and a woman determined to find the brutal madman who left her for dead a year ago. Now, in Dianne Emleyβs brilliant new thriller, Nan Vining must face the truth: her attacker is still out there and heβs killed at least three other women.
She has given a name to her unknown assailant: T. B. MannβThe Bad Man. On the job, Nan breaks rules and steals evidence, building a case file based on the dead certainty that T. B. Mann is obsessed with women who wear uniforms or carry guns, that he hunts them and kills them, then adorns them with a pearl necklace.
At the crime scene of her official assignment, the murder of an ex-con in a clown suit, Nan spots a graffiti tag and is sure, against all reason, that T. B. Mann was there, too. But she is fearful to share her suspicions.
Further complicating matters is Nanβs developing relationship with Detective Jim Kissick. In the grip of her secret obsession, she knows that opening her heart means losing control.
Within this sprawling panorama T. B. Mann reemerges, bringing Nan to the sudden, horrifying realization that her killer has baited the perfect trap. Smart and gut-wrenching, deeply felt and passionate, The Deepest Cut startles and astounds from the first page to the last.
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