Claire Morgan is a tough-as-nails homicide detective in
Canton County, Missouri, in the Lake of the Ozarks region.
Her fiery strength, stubbornness and determination to do
her job right means she sometimes takes reckless,
unnecessary risks. This worries her dedicated fiancé Nick
Black and makes him crazy...it's the only thing they fight
about in their ardent relationship.
It's the dead of winter during a terrible snowstorm when a
corpse, with almost every bone in his body shattered, is
found frozen at the bottom of a cliff in a local park.
Identification of the victim leads to the utterly violent
world of mixed martial arts/ultimate fighters, and Claire
finds herself investigating a most bizarre case. She learns
that most of these men are brutally trained from a young
age in the dark and dangerous backwoods around her area.
She also discovers a link to a vicious Russian mafia don in
East St. Louis through the dead man's wife, who's also
found murdered a few days later. Could this case get any
more complicated? Claire soon finds out that it can -- and
does -- when she's abducted by the killer. Alone in a cage
in the hidden lair of a perverted psychopath with no means
of escape and no one knowing where she is, has Claire's
luck finally run out?
Incorporating featured characters from previous novels adds
another superb level of satisfaction to BAD BONES, a
complex and truly chilling psychological thriller from the
very talented Linda Ladd. Witty narrative and
intense characterization are writing skills applied with
expertise making BAD BONES an incomparable reading
experience.
Homicide detective Claire Morgan has a bad feeling when a
man’s body is found in a Missouri State Park. The crime
scene is buried in snow. The corpse is frozen in ice. And
nearly every bone has been broken, shattered, or crushed…
BAD BLOOD
Claire’s suspicions only get worse when the body is thawed
and identified. The victim was an ultimate fighter on the
cage-match circuit. His wife blames her ex-husband, a
Russian Mafioso. But Claire knows this is no mob-style
execution. This is something worse. Something evil…
BAD BONES
Raised from childhood to inflict pain, the killer uses rage
as a weapon. Punishing without mercy. Killing without
conscience. Upholding a dark family tradition that is so
twisted, so powerful, it destroys everything in its path.
And Claire is about to meet the family…
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