- Fiction, Government investigators, Serial murderers, Serial murders
The first book in the Kovac / Liska series. (Liska is the wisecracking one). Although, here, they are not the main characters: it's former FBI agent turned victim/witness Advocate, Kate Conlan and Special Agent John Quinn here battling a mass murderer who first tortures his victims, then anoints them and sets them ablaze.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Tami Hoag
- First published
- November 1996
- Pages
- 566
- Publisher
- Brown & Benchmark, Random House Publishing Group, BCA
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780743532945
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