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Spring break in Jacksonville, Florida. Pretty girls are everywhere—in the bars and dance clubs, on the beaches. None of them suspect the hot guy they're flirting with isn't what he seems. Because spring break is also hunting season. And it's time for the killing to begin. . .
THE PERFECT TIME. . .
Detective John Stallings is still raw from his last case, with a high profile and a failed marriage to show for it. All he needs is another serial killer. But while the methods differ, the string of blond, blue-eyed victims points to one thing: a psychopath with a terrifying agenda.
TO STRIKE. . .
There's no shortage of clues, but the target is clever, elusive, and ruthless. At this very moment, he's singling out the next innocent young thing who'll die for his pleasure. And soon Stallings will face a choice between the law he's trained to enforce, and his own need for vengeance. . .
PRAISE FOR JAMES ANDRUS AND THE PERFECT WOMAN
"This book moves with deadly speed and the assured hand of a writer who knows his stuff." —Michael Connelly
"AN INSIDER'S VIEW OF HOW A TRUE POLICE INVESTIGATION UNFOLDS. IT'S AS CLOSE A LOOK AT POLICE WORK AS YOU CAN GET." –Elmore Leonard
"ONE OF THE BEST COP NOVELS TO COME ALONG IN YEARS." —Jeffery Deaver
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- ISBN: 9780786027866
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- ISBN: 9780786027866
- File size: 2090 KB
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November 22, 2010
In Andrus's engaging second thriller to feature James Stalling and Patty Levine (after The Perfect Woman), the two missing persons detectives look into the puzzling case of college student Allie Marsh, who died of an overdose of home-made ecstasy while having sex. Allie's is just one of several suspicious deaths among the Jacksonville, Fla., spring break crowd. As a career law enforcement officer, Andrus brings authenticity to the police procedural details. He's also good at depicting the complicated lives of his leads—Stalling, whose own daughter disappeared at 16 and whose home life is in disarray, is particularly devoted to cases of missing persons and endangered young women—as well as the care the killer takes to avoid getting caught. The one flaw is the author's tendency to dwell on the motivations of his many characters, as if he couldn't trust the reader to remember what he'd already established.
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