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Night had fallen, and the woman looked down at the crumpled letter, as if, in absolute darkness, she could read the postscript: Only a monster can play this game.

In Chicago, an FBI agent is killed in a psychiatrist's waiting room.
In New York, the jurors from a controversial... read more

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An FBI agent is killed in a psychiatrist's office...Jurors on a controversial trial are murdered one by one...A norotious shock-jock is flirting with his listeners' worst impulses...An unnerving beauty cleans up crime scenes, erasing the sins of man.

Only Detective Mallory can find the... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

An FBI agent is killed in a psychiatrist's office...Jurors on a controversial trial are murdered one by one...A norotious shock-jock is flirting with his listeners' worst impulses...An unnerving beauty cleans up crime scenes, erasing the sins of man.

Only Detective Mallory can find the connection between the murders...between the victims and the survivors...between herself and the stranger whose deadly game has just begun. Because Mallory knows something no one else does.

And it's taking her dangerously close to the edge...

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First Sentence edit see section history

THE BLACK VAN HAD NO HELPFUL LETTERING ON THE side to tell the neighbors what business it was about on this November afternoon.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 7 of 10 in Kathleen Mallory. (standard series)

Preceded by Crime School, and followed by Winter House.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Carol O'Connell (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
Country: United States
Publication Date: September 2003
ISBN: 0399150846
Page Count: 288

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PS3565.C497 D43 2003
  • Dewey: 823.914

Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history

   
  • Mallory's Oracle
  • The Man Who Cast Two Shadows
  • Killing Critics
  • Stone Angel
  • Shell Game
  • Crime School

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