In the Shadow of the Arch
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- 4,99 €
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- 4,99 €
Publisher Description
Bestselling Author of Alone with the Dead
"Randisi uses the shopping-center settings to fine dramatic effect, rendering them spooky stalking grounds." —Publishers Weekly
Joe Keough, a former New York City police detective, moved to St. Louis to get away from the bloodshed of the Big Apple and start fresh. But five minutes into Keough's new life, four-year-old Brady Sanders walked into his St. Louis police station, leaving behind a trail of bloody footprints.
That was only the beginning of a twisted trail of darkness and fear, from Brady's missing parents and their blood soaked house, to the kidnapping of beautiful mothers and their small children. Were these hideous acts a series of unrelated coincidences, or was there a serial killer on the loose, stalking and killing the citizens of St. Louis? It wasn't long before Keough was forced to realize that death in the Midwest is no different from death in New York. Terror is terror, no matter where you live.
"A skilled, uncompromising writer, Randisi knows which buttons to press—and how to press them." —John Lutz, Author of Single White Female
"Each of Randisi's novels is better than its entertaining predecessor." —Booklist
"Randisi successfully combines dry humor and suspense to come up with one heckuva read. This man knows how people talk and think and it shows. —Rave Reviews
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Police detective Joe Keough moves from New York City to St. Louis in this second adventure (after Alone With the Dead, 1995) and quickly finds that Midwestern streets are mean, too. The transplanted detective has just reported to his new job when a three-year-old boy with bloody pajamas wanders into the stationhouse. At the child's home, Keough finds a blood-drenched scene, but no parents. Although Keough and family counselor Valerie Speck want desperately to locate the child's family, a special unit takes over. Meanwhile, Keough gets a new case: young women with babies in strollers are being kidnapped from shopping-mall parking lots. The babies are found, alive, in dumpsters. Some of the mothers are murdered and others are missing. Keough's Brooklyn-honed experience serves him well, but he needs help from local partners, the FBI and mall rent-a-cops. Randisi uses the banal shopping-center settings to fine dramatic effect, rendering them spooky stalking grounds for a sex murderer. Keough, a regular guy, easily ingratiates himself in a new setting. As Randisi keeps the two-case story moving briskly, avid mystery readers may spot names of authors, and even high-profile fans, in the cast. There's also a nice defense of doughnuts as an essential food group for detectives.
