The Dead Detective
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4.8 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A Florida cop with a connection to the dead investigates the murder of a monstrous woman in this “edgy police drama” by the Edgar Award-winner (New York Times Book Review).
When Harry Doyle was ten years old, he was murdered by his mentaly ill mother—and brought back to life by two Tampa cops. Twenty years later he has dedicated his life to putting killers behind bars as a homicide detective who has the unwanted ability to hear the postmortem whispers of murder victims. Dubbed “The Dead Detective” by his fellow cops, Doyle now faces his most difficult case—a beautiful murder victim who was a notorious child molester. It is a case that will shake Harry to his very core.
A former investigative reporter, William Heffernan is a three-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize. His other crime novels include The Corsican, The Dinosaur Club, and the Edgar Award-winner, Tarnished Blue.
“The Dead Detective is a meaty story that offers an intriguing and conflicted protagonist, a darkly fascinating victim, solid police procedural detail, a knowing look at the Tampa Bay area and its politics, an unlikely murderer, and a creepy denouement that hints that Harry will be back.”—Booklist
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A lead whose psychology is underdeveloped and an easily solvable puzzle mar Edgar-winner Heffernan's contemporary whodunit, his first novel in seven years. When Florida homicide cop Harry Doyle was 10, his religious fanatic mother tried to kill him and his younger brother, Jimmy, to send them to heaven. The police were able to resuscitate Harry after he technically died, but were too late to save Jimmy. That trauma earned Harry the nickname of the "dead detective" when he joined the force as an adult. With his mother still writing him from jail on the anniversary of her crime, Harry finds distraction in a high-profile murder investigation. Disgraced teacher Darlene Beckett, who slept with one of her teenage students, has turned up in a nature preserve with her throat slashed and the word evil carved into her forehead. Heffernan (Tarnished Blue) has trouble providing clues to the killer's identity without giving the game away.
