Synopses & Reviews
Colleen McCullough, who crafts "fiction at its best" (
Time), triumphs with a searing murder mystery packed with heartpounding twists inside the world of science.
All the victims were pretty girls.
When the remains of a young woman are found at a Connecticut neurological institute, Lieutenant Carmine Delmonico is called to investigate. It is only the first of a serial killer's grisly crimes, however, and Delmonico is plunged into his most perplexing and terrifying case.
All the victims looked alike.
A frightening pattern emerges as the violence escalates, and Delmonico senses the killer is among the institute's staff of scientists and doctors. Infiltrating their ranks, he gets closer to manager Desdemona Dupre, who can help him uncover the secrets, politics, and backstabbing ambitions harbored there.
All is not what it seems.
But this audacious killer's game has only just begun -- a game poised to unravel everything Delmonico believes, and pull the detective who's seen it all into a shocking face-off with a staggering revelation at its core.
Review
"An intelligent shocker."
-- Publishers Weekly
Synopsis
< b="">A New York Times Bestselling Author<>< p="">Written in the tradition of an Agatha Christie "whodunit," the novel's time slot of 1965 means few contemporary forensic techniques are available to the intelligent and dogged Lieutenant Carmine Delmonica when he is assigned to solve what at first seems to be a single homicide. Part of the body of a young woman has turned up at one of the world's leading centers for neurological research, but it is not long before Delmonica realizes he is hunting a ne and horrifying phenomenon, a serial killer, and that this person belongs to the center.< p="">Simultaneous Publication with Simon & Schuster's standard print edition.
About the Author
Colleen McCullough was born in Australia. A neuropathologist, she established the department of neurophysiology at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney before working as a researcher and teacher at Yale Medical School for ten years. Her writing career began with the publication of Tim, followed by The Thorn Birds, a record-breaking international bestseller. She lives on Norfolk Island in the South Pacific with her husband, Ric Robinson.