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THE 9TH HOUR
By: Claire Stibbe

When the ninth young girl falls into the clutches of a serial killer, maverick detective, David Temeke, faces a race against time to save her life.

Detective Temeke Crime
Crooked Cat Books
November 2015
On Sale: November 10, 2015
Featuring: Detective David Temeke; Detective Malin Santiago
307 pages
ISBN: 1910510858
EAN: 9781910510858
Kindle: B017UW6694
Paperback / e-Book
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Suspense | Thriller

The Duke City Police Department in Albuquerque, New Mexico is no stranger to gruesome murders, but this new serial killer on their block keeps the body parts of his eight young victims as trophies and has a worrying obsession with the number 9. The suspect is incarcerated in the state's high security penitentiary but Unit Commander Hackett is faced with a dilemma when another teenage girl goes missing.

Detective Temeke and his new partner, Malin Santiago, are sent to solve a baffling crime in the dense forests of New Mexico’s Cimarron State Park. But time is running out. Can they unravel the mysteries of Norse legends and thwart the 9th Hour killer before he dismembers his next victim?

This is the first in the Detective Temeke mystery series.