Perry's new thriller takes us on a dangerous cat-and-mouse game that pits two women against each other: a beautiful serial killer and the detective who is determined to stop her.
Random House
March 2006
Featuring: Catherine Hobbes; Joe Pitt
384 pages ISBN: 1400060044 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Thomas Perry was born in Tonawanda, New York in 1947. He
received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1969 and a Ph.D.
in English from the University of Rochester in 1974. He has
worked as a park maintenance man, factory laborer,
commercial fisherman, university administrator and teacher,
and a writer and producer of prime time network television
shows. He is the author of fourteen novels. He lives in
Southern California with his wife and two daughters.
Thomas Perry's novels of suspense have been celebrated for
their "dazzling ingenuity" (The New York Times Book
Review)
and for writing that is "as sharp as a sushi knife" (Los
Angeles Times). By turns horrifying and erotic, Perry's new
thriller takes us on a dangerous cat-and-mouse game that
pits two women against each other: a beautiful serial killer
and the detective who is determined to stop her.
When the cousin of Los Angeles underworld figure Hugo Poole
is found shot to death in his Portland, Oregon, home, police
find nothing at the scene of the crime except several long
strands of blond hair hinting that a second victim may have
been involved. Hotel security tapes from the victim's last
vacation reveal an out-of-focus picture of a young blond
woman entering and leaving his room. Could she also be a
murder victim?
Portland homicide detective Catherine Hobbes is determined
to solve the case and locate the missing blonde, but her
feelings, and the investigation, are complicated when Hugo
hires private detective Joe Pitt to perform a parallel
investigation. As the Joe and Catherine form an uneasy
alliance, the murder count rises--and both realize that the
pretty young woman in the security tapes is not a victim at
all.
As Catherine follows the evidence, she finds herself in a
deadly contest with an unpredictable adversary capable of
changing her appearance and identity at will. Catherine must
use everything she knows, as a homicide detective and as a
woman, to stop a murderer who kills on impulse and with
ease, and who becomes more efficient and elusive with each
crime.
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