![]() She’s especially good at making the strippers more than clichés. Rutkoski uses the familiar plot of a police search for a killer targeting women to paint moving portraits of desperate lives on both sides of the law. ![]() Amador investigates, with the help of colleague Holly Meylin, who is still traumatized by her infant’s accidental death due to her ex-husband’s negligence. The exact cause of death isn’t immediately clear, but the coroner finds date-rape drugs in the woman’s system, and the figure of a crown was carved into the sole of one foot. When he responds, he finds blood and, eventually, the corpse of a woman who worked at a nearby strip club. ![]() Victor Amador, a police detective in an unnamed state, is hoping for a quiet overtime shift when he gets a call to investigate a report of an abandoned car in a ditch. ![]() YA and children’s author Rutkoski ( The Kronos Chronicles) makes her adult debut with a haunting crime novel. ![]()
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