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2013
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He did his killing behind a badge. He lived for the sudden bloodshed, the booze, and the women who made him feel whole again. And whenever the law-abiding hypocrites closed in around him, he always managed to slip away. But Joe Potter couldn't outrun the demons that were chasing him – not even on the wide-open Dakota range. For it was there, in a line shack in winter, that an Indian woman and her child finally caught up with a man burning
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 6
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta, on assignment with the FBI, gets involved in a Christmas Eve murder in New York City. She must identify the dead female before the serial killer whose work this is finds Scarpetta's niece.
"In Richmond, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner of Virginia and consultant for the FBI, is in the midst of a late-night autopsy at the morgue when the call comes: Gault, the sadistic psychopath who has eluded capture for years, has struck...
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An unidentified corpse is found near Vigàta, a town known for its soil rich with potter's clay. Meanwhile, a woman reports the disappearance of her husband, a Colombian man with Sicilian origins who turns out to be related to a local mobster. Then Inspector Montalbano remembers the story from the Bible-- Judas's betrayal, the act of remorse, and the money for the potter's field, where those of unknown or foreign origin are to be buried-- and slowly,...
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Brother Cadfael medieval mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
[1990]
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Brother Cadfael becomes involved in a mystery when the corpse of a young woman is plowed up in a potter's field in 1143.
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