Bone Deep [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]

Wiltse, David

ISBN 10: 039914093X / ISBN 13: 9780399140938

Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, NY, 1995

About this Item

Near fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by author on title page (signature only). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. As-new dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve. Book as new except for toning to the edges of the pageblock. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. Audience: General/trade. A John Becker mystery by the Edgar Award-and Drama Desk Award-winning author of the Billy Tree novels and 'The Wedding Guest'. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

Seller Inventory # Alibris.0011625

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bone Deep [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039914093X
• ISBN 13: 9780399140938
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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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