Burke, Alafair. Dead connection.BURKE, Alafair. Dead connection. Read by Christopher Lane. 7 tapes. 11 hrs. Brilliance Audio. 2007 978-1-4233-4336-3. $82.25. Vinyl; plot, reader notes. SA A serial killer serial killer Forensic psychiatry A person who commits serial murders Prototypic SK White ♂ age 30; 97% are ♂; 80% are sociopaths. See Dahmer, Depraved heart murder, Ice Man. Cf Megan's law, Son of Sam law. called "Enoch" who uses the Internet to lure his victims may be on the loose in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Two young professional women using FirstDate.com have been murdered one year apart and rookie cop Ellie Hatcher is loaned to the homicide task force to act as bait. She and her partner, an oddball maverick, investigate in this suspenseful police procedural police procedural n. A story or drama about the investigation of a crime by the police. police procedural Noun a novel, film, or television drama that deals with police work . Ellie is a sympathetic and charismatic character whose father died trying to find another serial killer in their native Kansas. A third dead woman is found. The FBI joins the fray in the person of agent Charlie Dixon. He is convinced that the owner of FirstDate is involved and may be a retired NYPD NYPD New York City Police Department (since 1845; New York City, NY, USA) NYPD New York Play Development cop who has a yacht and an expensive house. A fourth victim is discovered and Ellie may be number five. Narrator NARRATOR. A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete. Lane gives the novel a full-voiced reading, adding accents from India, Louisiana, Russia, and Brooklyn. He handles with conviction this tale of greed, jealousy, lust, and revenge. A few obscenities. Janet Julian, English Teacher (retired), Grafton, MA |
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