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Dave Gurney #3
Crown
August 2012
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Featuring: Dave Gurney
464 pages
ISBN: 0307717925
EAN: 9780307717924
Kindle: B0076PGL1E
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In this latest novel from bestselling author John Verdon,
ingenious puzzle solver Dave Gurney puts under the
magnifying glass a notorious serial murder case – one
whose motives have been enshrined as law-enforcement dogma -
and discovers that everyone has it wrong. The most decorated homicide detective in NYPD history, Dave
Gurney is still trying to adjust to his life of
quasi-retirement in upstate New York when a young woman who
is producing a documentary on a notorious murder spree seeks
his counsel. Soon after, Gurney begins feeling
threatened: a razor-sharp hunting arrow lands in his yard,
and he narrowly escapes serious injury in a booby-trapped
basement. As things grow more bizarre, he finds
himself reexamining the case of The Good Shepherd, which ten
years before involved a series of roadside shootings and a
rage-against-the-rich manifesto. The killings ceased,
and a cult of analysis grew up around the case with a
consensus opinion that no one would dream of
challenging -- no one, that is, but Dave Gurney. Mocked even by some who’d been his supporters in previous
investigations, Dave realizes that the killer is too clever
to ever be found. The only gambit that may make sense
is also the most dangerous – to make himself a target
and get the killer to come to him. To survive, Gurney must rely on three allies: his beloved
wife Madeleine, impressively intuitive and a beacon of light
in the gathering darkness; his de-facto investigative
“partner” Jack Hardwick, always ready to spit in authority’s
face but wily when it counts; and his son Kyle, who has come
back into Gurney’s life with surprising force, love and loyalty. Displaying all the hallmarks for which the Dave Gurney
series is lauded -- well-etched characters, deft black
humor, and ingenious deduction that ends in a climactic
showdown – Let the Devil Sleep is something more: a
reminder of the power of self-belief in a world that
contains too little of it.
Dave Gurney
Comments
1 comment posted.
Re: Let The Devil Sleep
Thank goodness for Fresh Fiction's Spotlight on you today, otherwise I might not have heard about your books. I have to catch up now and read the earlier two Gurney novels to catch up...fortunately for me I am an insatiable reader and really looking forward to reading them.
(Sumiyati Monoarfa 9:01pm July 24, 2012)
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