"From Erica Spindler, the New York Times bestselling author of The Other Girl and The Look-Alike, comes The Detective’s Daughter, a thrilling crime drama about a woman who risks everything to solve the cold case that destroyed her father—but will it destroy her as well?
New Orleans Detective Quinn Conners is haunted by her father’s whiskey-soaked last words—that he solved the Hudson murder and kidnapping. It wasn’t the first time he’d made that drunken claim, and she didn’t believe him. Twenty-four hours later she found him dead by his own hand. Quinn blames the investigation for his downfall, so when a woman researching a book about the kidnapping contacts her for help, Quinn shuts her out. But an attempt on the writer’s life and an anonymous message that puts her father’s suicide in question convinces Quinn there’s more to the writer’s story.
Soon, Quinn finds herself entangled in the web of mystery surrounding Grace Hudson’s disappearance and the powerful, secretive family at the heart of it. With nowhere else to turn, she immerses herself in her dad’s private notes—they lead her down a dark, twisted path where nothing is as it seems and no one is above suspicion. Too late, Quinn sees that, like her father before her, the case threatens to consume her. But turning back is not an option—she’s determined to unearth the truth of whatever happened to Grace Hudson … even if it costs her life."
"Jane lebt an der Seite des Schönheitschirurgen Ian Westbrook als erfolgreiche Künstlerin in Dallas. Ihr Glück bricht jedoch zusammen wie ein Kartenhaus. Mit Drohbriefen meldet sich der Mann zurück, der sie vor vielen Jahren fast getötet hätte. Will er sein Werk nun vollenden? Steckt er auch hinter den jüngsten Frauenmorden? Oder muss Jane sogar Angst vor ihrem eigenen Mann haben? Für die Polizei ist er tatverdächtig. Doch welche Rolle spielt Janes Halbschwester Stacey, die die Ermittlungen leitet? Sie wollte sich schon längst an der Schwester rächen, an Jane, die immer auf der Sonnenseite des Lebens zu stehen scheint. Wem kann Jane nun noch vertrauen? Sie zieht in den Kampf – um ihr Leben und für ihre Liebe.-"
"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 - 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 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 - 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 - a female - 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 - 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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