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Connelly follows up Trunk Music with a tautly paced, seductivelyinvolving thriller about a murder that is less random than it seems.Ex-FBI agent Terry McCaleb is recuperating from a heart transplant whenbeautiful Graciela Rivers walks up to his San Pedro houseboat, tellshim that the donor of his new heart, her sister Gloria, was murdered ina convenience-store robbery and asks him to find the killer. Althoughhis doctor warns him against it, McCaleb can't resist the case (anymore than he could resist the serial-murder cases that caused his heartattack in the first place). With no license and little cooperation fromthe police, McCaleb reviews the evidence and connects a second murderto Gloria's killer. But it's only when he discovers that souvenirs havebeen taken from the victims that McCaleb realizes he is dealing with atype of killer with which he is all too familiar. Even working withseemingly shopworn material, Connelly produces fresh twists and turns,and, as usual, packs his plot with believable, logical surprises. Headds a moral twist by establishing a frightening bond between thehunter and the hunted, intimately connecting his detective to thecriminal's guilt. Fans of Connelly's Harry Bosch novels will feel rightat home with this beautifully constructed, powerfully resonatingthriller, and newcomers will see right away what all the fuss has beenabout.<br />
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