Girl missing a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9780345549631
- ISBN: 0345549635
- ISBN: 9780345549624
- ISBN: 0345549627
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote
1 online resource. - Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, 2014.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Previously published as Peggy Sue got murdered." |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Genre: | Electronic books. Romantic suspense fiction. Suspense fiction. Fiction. Romances. Thrillers (Fiction) |
Electronic resources
- Baker & Taylor
Medical examiner M.J. Novak's investigation of a woman's death leads her to suspect an incipient epidemic. - Random House, Inc.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Â From Tess Gerritsen, bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series, her stunning first thriller!
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A beautiful young woman's corpse is found dumped in a garbage-strewn alley. Now laid out in the office of medical examiner Kat Novak is an unidentified body that betrays no secrets'except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the streets, using a deadly drug to do his dirty work. The police are skeptical. The mayor won't listen. One of the town's most prominent citizens, with a missing daughter of his own, is also Kat's chief suspect. As the death toll rises, Kat races to expose a deadly predator who is close enough to touch her.
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Praise for Tess Gerritsen
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'[The author] has a knack for creating great characters and mysterious plots that seem straightforward but also dazzle with complexity and twists.''Associated Press
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'[Gerritsen] has an imagination that allows her to conjure up depths of human behavior so dark and frightening that she makes Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft seem like goody-two-shoes.''Chicago Tribune
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'One of the most versatile voices in thriller fiction today.''the Providence Journal
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Previously published as Peggy Sue Got Murdered - Random House, Inc.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â¢Â From Tess Gerritsen, bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series, her stunning first thriller!
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A beautiful young womanâs corpse is found dumped in a garbage-strewn alley. Now laid out in the office of medical examiner Kat Novak is an unidentified body that betrays no secretsâexcept for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the streets, using a deadly drug to do his dirty work. The police are skeptical. The mayor wonât listen. One of the townâs most prominent citizens, with a missing daughter of his own, is also Katâs chief suspect. As the death toll rises, Kat races to expose a deadly predator who is close enough to touch her.
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Praise for Tess Gerritsen
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â[The author] has a knack for creating great characters and mysterious plots that seem straightforward but also dazzle with complexity and twists.ââAssociated Press
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â[Gerritsen] has an imagination that allows her to conjure up depths of human behavior so dark and frightening that she makes Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft seem like goody-two-shoes.ââChicago Tribune
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âOne of the most versatile voices in thriller fiction today.ââThe Providence Journal
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Previously published as Peggy Sue Got Murdered