Bone Deep

Wiltse, David

ISBN 10: 039914093X / ISBN 13: 9780399140938

Published by G. P. Putnam, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A., 1995

About this Item

Pages are lightly tanned at the borders. There is a remainder mark on the bottom page edges. A first edition with the copyright page having the full number sequence of 1-10 present. The Dust-Jacket's original price is still present. Pages are clean, and tight. A vertical, 1 1/2" closed tear at the top left corner of the front cover was previouly repaired with clear tape applied to the inside.

Seller Inventory # 6012508

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bone Deep
• Publisher: G. P. Putnam, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039914093X
• ISBN 13: 9780399140938
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction-Mystery, Suspense.

About this title

Synopsis

A serial killer seduces teenagers and au pair girls in a quiet Connecticut suburb, murders them during sex, and separates them bone by bone, and FBI agent John Becker and Police Chief Terence "Tee" Terhune must stop him.

Reviews

Wiltse's fifth thriller to feature FBI agent John Becker (Into the Fire, etc.) effectively paints nearly every main character as the elusive serial killer preying on young women in the commuter hamlet of Camden, Conn. The rain-swollen Saugatuck River floats a bone into a local backyard, prompting the attention of the vacationing Becker and his old friend "Tee" Terhune, the town's police chief; Becker's assessment that the bone is human is confirmed by nerdy local orthopedist Stanley Korn. After marks on the bone reveal that the body it belongs to was cut in pieces before burial, an upriver search turns up a charnel house of companion bones in the loose soil of a Christmas tree farm. A prime suspect arises when Tee gets anonymous tips that one of his officers, the loathsome McNeil, who likes to sleep with high-school girls, is involved in the killings. Meanwhile, Becker's wife, Karen, an FBI honcho who's also his boss, pushes Becker and herself into a friendship with Korn and his wife. Signs of an affair between Korn and Karen unnerve Becker enough to hire private detectives to follow the orthopedist; distracted by this threat to his marriage, Becker makes little headway on the case while Tee obsesses about McNeil until a chance happening forces a frightening confrontation that nearly costs Karen her life. Becker's marital tensions cry "plot device," but, as usual, Wiltse manages to weave the psychological foibles of cops and criminals expertly, adding depth to a story that, even on the surface, is a nail-biter.
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