Malice by Lisa Jackson
On leave from the New Orleans Police Department after a freak accident, Detective Rick Bentz is obsessed with getting back to work----and not behind a desk. He intends to return to homicide, his partner and to the complex, difficult cases that earned him accolades and a reputation for heroism. Haunted by depression and frustration, nagged by pain that until recently made even walking impossible, Bentz begins to question his sanity when he begins seeing visions of his late wife. Certain he's being set up, he follows the clues back to Los Angeles and to his past. It's where his ex-wife died and where he poured himself into a bottle after mistaking a twelve-year-old boy with a toy gun for a murderer about to kill his partner and shooting him dead. Within forty-eight hours of his return to LA, a killer duplicates the double homicide that helped end his LAPD career, and a killing spree begins in which each victim is a part of his ex-wife's past, each corpse points to Bentz as the killer, and a murderer is determined to keep at it until Bentz has finally paid for his sins. "A vengeful ex-wife appears to have returned from the dead to stalk her ex-husband in this gripping thriller from bestseller Jackson,,, Jackson heightens the creep factor by including the viewpoint of a character whose hatred for Rick for past wrongs inspires another extreme killing spree." -- Publishers Weekly on MALICE
"Solidifies Jackson's sttus as the queen of the modern-day suspense thriller." -- The Providence Journal on LOST SOULS
"Expect the unexpected." -- The Clarion Ledger on LOST SOULS
Lisa Jackson can't keep away from murderers, especially serial killers. She's been killing people from Savannah, New Orleans and Baton Rouge to San Francisco, Los Angeles and the Pacific Northwest--and it's been worth it. Readers come back again and again. Her book Fatal Burn was a number one New York Times paperback bestseller, and her first hardcover, Shiver, hit the top five on the New York Times Best Sellers list. Readers made WICKED GAME, written with her sister, novelist Nancy Bush, and the paperback reprint of LOST SOULS, national bestsellers. Lisa's next book, MALICE is on sale March 31st.ThrillerFest
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