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Synopsis
'One of the creepiest killers since Hannibal Lecter meets a plot and heroine worthy of Patricia Cornwell. Welcome to the big time...' - KIRKUS REVIEWS Winner of a 1995 Edgar & nominated for the Best Mystery Macavity. 'A wonderfully appealing heroine with a lot of guts, a fine sense of humour, a more than passing acquaintance with life's ironies, and enough of her own dark secrets to make her both vulnerable and humane. Two thumbs up - way up! - for this outstanding book.' - BOOKLIST Molly Cates is a good ol' Texas gal who's spent the last decade of her career writing a biography of down-and-out serial killer Louie Bronk. Her book has just been published, and Louie, after eleven years on Death Row, is about to be executed. At the last moment, though, he recants. Hooked yet again, Molly reinvestigates and gets caught up in a series of bizarre events that end in a stunningly unexpected climax.
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Review
In this 1995 winner of the Edgar Award for best mystery novel, crime reporter Molly Cates has chronicled the exploits of Louie Bronk, a brutal serial killer scheduled for execution, for her first book. With his execution just a few days away, Molly decides to write the closing chapter on her disturbing relationship with the man known as the Texas Scalper. Strangely, both her boss and the husband of the woman whose murder got Bronk the death penalty pressure her to back off the story. When she receives a chilling anonymous letter and another body is found, she begins to suspect that Bronk is not the killer at all. Her quest for the truth, she discovers, not only discredits her work, but places her own life on the line.
From the Publisher
"Texas-based crime reporter Molly Cates has just published her first book, describing the blood-curdling exploits of serial killer Louie Bronk. Now on death row, Louie's sentence is about to be carried out. Molly will be there as a witness, and she wants to write about it--the final coda to Louie's story. But suddenly, she's being strongly discouraged by her boss at the Lone Star Monthly and by Charlie McFarland, the millionaire real estate developer whose first wife, Tiny, was Bronk's most famous victim--and the only one whose murder is a capital offense. Then Molly starts to receive dark hints that Louie may not have killed Tiny after all. There is another murder following Louis's M.O.--one he could not have committed. The veracity of Molly's book is threatened--and then her very life. Caught between a rock and a hard place, Molly realizes that by attempting to save Louis she is putting her own life on the line, and discrediting her own work. Mary Willis Walker brings a lusty new voice to the mystery scene. Already recognized for her first novel, she has now created a character just cheeky and gusty enough to take her place among the top ranks of female protagonists such as Kinsey Millhone and Kay Scarpetta.
"One of the creepiest killers since Hannibal Lecter meets a plot and heroine worthy of Patricia Cornwell. Welcome to the big time, Mary Willis Walker." --Kirkus Reviews.
"Remarkable." --Denver Post.
"A page-turning success." --Dallas Morning News
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- PublisherUlverscroft Large Print Books
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0708958141
- ISBN 13 9780708958148
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages524
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