Copycat / Last Known Victim - Softcover

Spindler, Erica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0778324451 ISBN 13: 9780778324454

Publisher: MIRA, 2007

Synopsis

Five years ago, three young victims were found murdered, posed
like little angels. No witnesses, no evidence left behind. The Sleeping
Angel Killer called his despicable acts 'the perfect crimes.' The
case nearly destroyed homicide detective Kitt Lundgren's career—
because she let the killer get away.
Now the Sleeping Angel Killer is back.
But Kitt notices something different about this new rash of killings—
a tiny variation that suggests a copycat killer may be re-creating
the original 'perfect crimes.' Then the unthinkable happens. The
Sleeping Angel Killer himself approaches Kitt with a bizarre offer:
he will help her catch his copycat.
Kitt must decide whether to place her trust in a murderer—or risk
falling victim to a fiend who has taken the art of the perfect murder
to horrific new heights.

About this title

About the Author:

Bestselling author Erica Spindler stakes her claim as one of today's best thriller writers with this chilling story that explores our deepest fears and the power of one woman to triumph over her demons.

Erica Spindler's bestselling novels include Killer Takes All, See Jane Die, In Silence, Dead Run, Bone Cold, All Fall Down and Cause for Alarm. She lives in the New Orleans area with her husband, an advertising executive, and their two sons.

From Publishers Weekly:

The Sleeping Angel Killer provides the chilling focus to Spindler's 12th bloodcurdling romantic thriller (after Killer Takes All). Kitt Lundgren and Mary Catherine "M.C." Riggio of the Rockford, Ill., VCB (Violent Crimes Bureau) vow to catch a serial killer who sets the suffocated bodies of 10-year-old girls in their own beds, dressed like angels in frilly white nightgowns, hair spread out on their pillows and pink lip gloss applied postmortem to their mouths. Spindler's setting of a "meat-and-potatoes" Midwest town provides a fresh background for two believable and very cool investigators. Kitt, a recovering middle-aged alcoholic, tried and failed to catch the murderer five years earlier, during a 2001 killing spree, while her own child was dying of leukemia and her marriage was falling apart under the strain. Now, when eerily similar crimes recur, someone calls Kitt, identifying himself as the original killer and the new perp as just a copycat. M.C., an ambitious, distrustful newbie, is assigned to help Kitt with the investigation. The detectives must overcome their personal problems in order to catch the monsters, a task culminating in a breathless finale. (June)
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About this edition

• Publisher: MIRA
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0778324451
• ISBN 13: 9780778324454
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 480