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Bad Bones

Bad Bones, October 2014
Claire Morgan #7
by Linda Ladd

Kensington
Featuring: Claire Morgan
ISBN: 1601830521
EAN: 9781601830524
Kindle: B00JFABXXE
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"Another chilling psychological thriller featuring incomparable homicide detective Claire Morgan."

Fresh Fiction Review

Bad Bones
Linda Ladd

Reviewed by Tanzey Cutter
Posted September 13, 2014

Thriller Police Procedural | Thriller Psychological

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.

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SUMMARY

BAD OMEN 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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