Charisma
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $4.99
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Publisher Description
Fatal Attraction
The first victim is a young prostitute—an easy, accessible target for a killer's lust. The second victim is another young girl. The killer is skilled, seasoned, enjoying himself.
The combustible detective team of Liz Graham and Cal Donovan is put on the case as suspicion falls on a charismatic traveling evangelist staging a week-long revival meeting. Who would benefit more from a town's tragedies than he? Oddly, the surfacing of a chum, long believed dead, from Donovan's childhood may have some connection.
Among them, though, wearing a mask of decency, a killer is once again deciding who lives and who dies, for the most passionate of motives...and by the most dispassionate of means.
"Superb character work..." —New York Times Book Review
"...powered by Bannister's three diverse and
forceful police characters, a strong supporting cast, and the stark urban wasteland, which possesses a dark beauty all its own."—Publishers Weekly
"A Highly readable...series." —Booklist
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Against a lush and oppressive urban waterfront, Inspector Liz Graham of the Castlemere CID investigates the cases of two dead girls, both found with their throats slashed. The first was a young prostitute called Charisma, the next a girl riding her pony in the early morning. While the prostitute's death goes largely unlamented, the second becomes the subject of evangelical oratory dished out by a traveling preacher and provokes a riot and a lynching. Liz finds herself drawn to the wheelchair-bound preacher; her volatile Irish assistant, Cal Donovan, spots a famous terrorist among the itinerant evangelist's road crew. Liz's boss, Frank Shapiro, quietly comes to the aid of both his driven detectives as Liz lets her emotions get in the way of her detecting and Cal gets beaten to a pulp. This second in a series begun with A Bleeding of Innocents, is powered by Bannister's three diverse and forceful police characters, a strong supporting cast and the stark urban wasteland, which possesses a dark beauty all its own.
