When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, it left devastation and lawlessness in its path. Capt. Patty O'Shea lost more than her beloved city in those fateful days, when her husband of 30 years was murdered by looters. With the city in chaos, law enforcement is scarce and crime is skyrocketing. When severed right hands appear in the refrigerator graveyard, they also know a serial killer is running loose in an already fragile city.
After two years of no leads and her husband's murder still unsolved, Patty gets a break when a body shows up without a right hand in the now desolate City Park. The most shocking news is when her husband's police badge is found under the body. Patty begins an investigation into solving both murders, which are obviously connected. She will do everything she can, including jeopardizing her job, to heal her grieving heart and a broken city by stopping a murderer from killing again.
This is an exciting and suspenseful thriller that keeps you guessing until the very last page. An absolutely fabulous read!
August 2005.
Amid death and destruction, hurricane-savaged New Orleans
has a new dark force to fear.
As the rescue efforts unfold, a grisly discovery is made
at one of the massive refrigerator "graveyards." One of
these metal hulks contains six human hands β all female,
all right hands. The press has dubbed the unknown
perpetrator "The Handyman." But with no way to trace the
origin of this refrigerator, and with the evidence lost to
time and the elements, the case dead-ends.
Captain Patti O'Shay is a straight-arrow, by-the-book cop
who is assigned to the case. Her tough, unflinching
character is fractured when her husband and fellow police
captain is found murdered β surprised by looters taking
advantage of the post-storm chaos.
August 2007
Patti, still grieving and disillusioned, gets a call from
homicide: skeletal remains have been unearthed in City
Park. The unknown victim β a female β is missing her right
hand. But for Patti, this grave holds something even more
shocking. Found beside the victim's bones is her husband's
police badge.
Casting aside the very "rule book" by which she has lived
her life, Patti is fearless β but so is the killer. As he
stalks her she is forced to question all she believes in,
to doubt the code she has lived by...because she knows
that if she doesn't find The Handyman first, she will
become his last known victim.
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