Precious Blood
New
York City medical examiner Edward Jenner thought he'd gotten out, turning his
back on forensics—and life—after the nightmare of September 11. But when a
young student is found murdered, her mutilated body hanging on the wall of an
East Village apartment, Jenner is forced out of retirement. One look at the
victim and Jenner is sure there's a serial killer on the loose—a hunch
confirmed when he uncovers a second horrific murder. And when a friend asks him
to look after a beautiful girl threatened by the killer, Jenner can't refuse.
Dragged
back onto the dark streets of New York City, Jenner is pushed to the limits of
his physical endurance, pitting his sharpest intuitions against the elusive
maneuverings of a psychopath. He's getting within inches of the answer, but the
clock is ticking and the killer is just too fast—ten steps ahead of the police,
two steps ahead of Jenner, and always just out of reach.
As
the killings continue, Jenner's desperate chase brings him ever closer to the
man behind the grisliest murders he's ever seen—and only one of them can
survive.
This is real-world forensic investigation, where fingerprints lead
nowhere, DNA doesn't help, and serial killers aren't always caught in the nick
of time. . . .
A Hard Death
Jenner,
the brilliant forensic pathologist hero of A PRECIOUS BLOOD, has survived the
horrific final denouement of the Inquisitor serial killings, but not the
political fall-out. His medical license suspended, Jenner finds himself
banished from New York to Douglas County in coastal Florida, and settles in to
work as a Medical Examiner in the balmy seaside resort of Port Fontaine.
But nothing in Douglas is as it seems. First, Jenner's former mentor is
found savagely murdered, then an anonymous call in the middle of the night
leads Jenner to a nightmarish discovery in the Everglades. He finds traces of a
shadowy criminal conspiracy, and soon learns that he can trust no one. Even
after an attempt on his life, Jenner refuses to walk away and let his friend's
murder go unpunished. The result is an explosive, edge-of-the-seat thriller in
the tradition of Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs.
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