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Detective Inspector January David has always put his professional before his private life, but the two worlds are about to clash horrifically as he visits his latest crime scene. He is confronted by a lifeless figure suspended ten feet above a theatre stage, blood pouring from her face into a coffin below. This gruesome execution is the work of an elusive serial killer.
Three women from three different London suburbs, each murdered with elaborate and chilling precision. And as January stares at the most beautiful corpse he's ever seen, he detects the killer's hallmark.
But Girl 4 is different: she is alive - barely. And January recognises her...
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This arresting thriller debut pits Det. Insp. January David against a sadistic serial killer, Eames, who methodically seduces and butchers three women in increasingly showy displays of gore and perversion. Carver builds suspense by switching point of view among Eames, David, David's professionally successful yet personally unfulfilled wife, and the first three victims, each of whom comes from a different London suburb. As the death toll rises, David runs into one dead end after another, with Eames seemingly always two steps ahead. In a chilling scene, David gets a personal shock when he comes across the mangled, bleeding body of the fourth victim, who's hanging above a theater stage with her blood dripping into a coffin below. Fortunately, she's still alive. Fans of British crime fiction will enjoy the many cultural references and clever witticisms sprinkled throughout the twisty plot.
