August 2005. Devastation has hit New Orleans leaving thousands stranded in a city lost in destruction. Captain Patti O'Shay is a straight-laced female cop assigned to maintain order during the city's time of crisis. In the midst of it all, her husband shows up dead and a gruesome discovery in the one of EPA approved dump sites, is the start of a serial killer, and that launches the book.
At first, I wondered how Spindler was going to work with the devastation of Katrina, but by page ten I couldn't believe the amount of research and information she had laced through her work--and all of it was interesting to the point of fascination! This is my first Spindler novel and I discovered that she's a writer that began in the 1980s in romance and then crossed over to suspense/mystery. Her romantic roots still linger in her writing, but I was also very impressed, again, with her technique and ability to detail crime scene investigation. I have to say it goes beyond watching a season of CSI. Overall, this book will keep you holding on, like a good ride, in the classic fight of good versus evil.
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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