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"A hero cop thwarts a brutal murder and can't remember a thing about it. But memories return -- and so do the nightmares in this breathlessly paced thriller for fans of David Ricciardi and Michael Connelly. Every town needs a hero -- and Detective Cal Farrell fits the bill. He stopped an a...
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Crooked Lane,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2023. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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"A hero cop thwarts a brutal murder and can't remember a thing about it. But memories return -- and so do the nightmares in this breathlessly paced thriller for fans of David Ricciardi and Michael Connelly. Every town needs a hero -- and Detective Cal Farrell fits the bill. He stopped an active shooter six months earlier, and now he's become the darling of the Alexandria press. The problem is that Cal remembers nothing from that day. He's working with a psychiatrist to recover his memories, but hasn't had much luck. Then, on one of his morning runs, he is once again the first on scene for a grisly discovery -- a body hanging impossibly high on a tree. Soon there's another victim, killed by a blade and dumped in a ravine. As the bodies begin to stack up, each staged more gruesomely than the last, Cal sees a baroque pattern to the crimes that no one else seems to understand -- something out of legend. As Alexandria dubs the serial killer "Old Town Jack," Cal learns that the only thing a city loves more than creating a hero is tearing one down. And if he can't get to the truth, this hometown hero might just be next in line for destruction."-- |
| Carrier Form: | 297 pages ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781639102464 1639102469 |
| Index Number: | PS3619 |
| CLC: | I712.45 |
| Call Number: | I712.45/S413 |