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(Dave Gurney, #2
Broadway
July 2012
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Featuring: Dave Gurney
528 pages
ISBN: 0770435564
EAN: 9780770435561
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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