Skeleton Justice
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
The star crime-solving pair of Dr. Jake Rosen, world-famous pathologist, and top litigator Manny Manfreda, return in a gripping new thriller.
New York City is on high alert for a serial killer—a strange kind of thief who stalks his victims for the purpose of extracting a vial of blood, earning him the tabloid nickname “the Vampire.” As the attacks escalate to torture and then to murder, Jake and Manny begin to suspect there is a connection between the killer’s seemingly random victims. But how do they link it to a case that Manny’s been working for a kid whose high school prank-gone-wrong has earned him the moniker the Preppy Terrorist? They soon discover that their case is a tragic tale of corruption interlaced with cover-ups, conspiracies, death squads, and dictators who committed crimes that to this day go unpunished.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The middling second forensic thriller from eminent pathologist Baden and his attorney wife (after Remains Silent) finds their fictional alter egos, Jake Rosen, New York City's deputy chief medical examiner, and his girlfriend, lawyer Philomena "Manny" Manfreda, both pursuing important cases. Jake is helping the police look into the attacks of "the Vampire," who has rendered five victims, including an opera singer, unconscious before draining some blood from their arms. Later, the Vampire ups the ante to murder. Meanwhile, Manny is defending a young man charged with setting a bomb in a mailbox that almost killed a federal judge. Few will be surprised when these separate plot lines intersect. Weak characterizations, a predictable damsel-in-distress twist and a shot in the dark, rather than Jake's scientific skill, that saves the day won't satisfy fans of Kathy Reichs and other authors of first-rate forensic thrillers. Author tour.
