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Also by Jilliane Hoffman:

Pretty Little Things, September 2010
Hardcover
Plea of Insanity, April 2009
Hardcover
Last Witness, June 2006
Paperback (reprint)
Last Witness, May 2005
Hardcover
Retribution, November 2004
Paperback (reprint)

PRETTY LITTLE THINGS
By: Jilliane Hoffman

Vanguard Press
September 2010
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Featuring: Bobby Dees
368 pages
ISBN: 1593156073
EAN: 9781593156077
Hardcover
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Thriller Serial Killer | Thriller Police Procedural

When a young girl goes missing, only Special Agent Bobby Dees has a chance of finding her. It seems Elaine Emerson was last seen waiting to meet a mysterious figure she met secretly on the Internet — a man whose reality is as cruel and chilling as the worst thing Dees can imagine.

Thirteen-year-old Lainey Emerson is the middle child in a household that police are already familiar with: her mother works too much and her step-father favors his own blood over another man’s problems — namely, Lainey and her wild older sister, Liza. So when Lainey does not come home from a Friday night out with her friends, it is dismissed by the Coral Springs Police Department as just another disillusioned South Florida teen running away from suburban drama and an unhappy home life.

But Special Agent Bobby Dees, who has headed up the department’s difficult Crimes Against Children (CAC) Squad in Miami for more than a decade, is not quite so sure. Nicknamed “The Shepherd” by colleagues, he has an uncanny ability to find the missing and bring them back home — dead or alive. Haunted by the still unsolved disappearance of his own daughter, Bobby recognizes the all too familiar upswell inside him, the gut feeling that Lainey Emerson is no runaway.

A search of Lainey’s computer and a talk with her best friend reveal Lainey was involved in a secret Internet relationship, spawned over a chat room, and nurtured through untraceable instant messages. Bobby fears she may be the victim of an online predator, and he fears she may not be the only one.

The faceless monster from cyberspace, who has gone to remarkable lengths to stay invisible, now seeks a captive audience. And it is Bobby Dees he wants watching. Can Bobby win this deadly game of cat-and-mouse, one involving the most prolific killer he has ever encountered? And will he be able to save Lainey and the others before it's too late?