January 2013 Book of the Month and eBook of the Month.
This is a gritty, graphic, disturbing psychological thriller and it is very good. A girl is abducted and tortured in New York, another is found horribly mutilated and left in a dumpster in Miami seemingly unrelated; but a Miami policeman and attorney find a lead which hints at something altogether worse. Required reading for any fan of Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs or Karin Slaughter.
Detective Manny Alvarez knows the body of a murdered Florida student is only the beginning--his investigation soon reveals a terrifying trend in nightclub abductions.
Hotshot Assistant State Attorney Daria DeBianchi works the case too, hoping it will be the one that makes her career. It will--but for all the wrong reasons.
Their only lead, notorious serial killer William Bantling, claims they are looking for more than one murderer. However, in exchange for the truth, he wants off death row.
C.J. Townsend, the prosecutor who put Bantling behind bars, lives under a false identity and struggles to forget the horrors of her past. However, her new life--along with everyone else's--is about to be shattered....
'Guaranteed to follow in the best-selling footsteps of Cornwell, Reichs and Slaughter Guardian
'Gripping, well-crafted suspense!a belter of a book' Sunday Express
'Hoffman writes like an angel. Outstanding' Independent on Sunday
'Hugely readable' Daily Mirror
Author
About Jilliane Hoffman
Jilliane Hoffman began her professional career as an Assistant State Attorney prosecuting felonies in Florida from 1992 to 1996, with special assignments to the Domestic Violence Unit and the Legal Extradition Unit. Through 2001, she was the Regional Legal Advisor for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), advising more than one hundred special agents on criminal and civil matters in complex investigations involving narcotics, homicide, and organized crime. Originally from Long Island, New York, she presently resides in South Florida with her husband and two children.
