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Dave Gurney #2
Crown
July 2011
On Sale: July 12, 2011
Featuring: Dave Gurney
432 pages
ISBN: 0307717895
EAN: 9780307717894
Kindle: B004J4WNGW
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Thriller | Suspense
When he was the NYPD’s top homicide investigator, Dave
Gurney was never comfortable with the label the press gave
him: super detective. He was simply a man who, when
faced with a puzzle, wanted to know. He was called to
the investigative hunt by the presumptuous arrogance of
murderers – by their smug belief that they could kill
without leaving a trace. There was always a trace,
Gurney believed.
Except what if one day there
wasn’t? Dave Gurney, a few months past the Mellery case that pulled
him out of retirement and then nearly killed him, is trying
once again to adjust to his country house’s bucolic rhythms
when he receives a call about a case so seductively
bewildering that the thought of not looking into it
seems unimaginable—even if his beloved wife, Madeleine,
would rather he do anything but. The facts of what has occurred are horrible: a blushing
bride, newly wed to an eminent psychiatrist and just minutes
from hearing her congratulatory toast, is found decapitated,
her head apparently severed by a machete. Though police
investigators believe that a Mexican gardener killed the
young woman in a fit of jealous fury, the victim’s mother—a
chilly high-society beauty—is having none of it. Reluctantly
drawn in, Dave is quickly buffeted by a series of
revelations that transform the bizarrely monstrous into the
monstrously bizarre. Underneath it all may exist one of the darkest criminal
schemes imaginable. And as Gurney begins deciphering its
grotesque outlines, some of his most cherished assumptions
about himself are challenged, causing him to stare into an
abyss so deep that it threatens to swallow not just him but
Madeleine, too. Desperate to protect Madeleine and bring an end to the
madness, Gurney ultimately discovers that the killer has
left a trace after all. Unfortunately, the revelation may
come too late to save his own life. With Shut Your Eyes Tight, John Verdon delivers on
the promise of his internationally bestselling debut,
Think of a Number, creating a portrait of evil let
loose across generations that is as rife with moments of
touching humanity as it is with spellbinding images of
perversity.
Dave Gurney
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