**A pulse-pounding thriller about a small town, a dead girl, and an investigator with nothing to lose.** Mark Novak just wants to come home. Still mourning the death of his wife, private investigator Mark Novak accepts a case that may be his undoing. On the same day his wife died, the body of a teen
Last Words
β Scribed by Mariah Stewart
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 171 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes a novel of sexy romantic suspense for fans of Nora Roberts, Catherine Coulter, and Karen Robards.
THIS KILLER TAKES THEIR BREATH AWAY.
A nine-year veteran of the FBI, special agent Mia Shields thinks sheβs seen it all. But nothing prepares her for the terror that descends upon the idyllic bayside community of St. Dennis, on Marylandβs Eastern Shore, where a depraved killer has left a grisly surprise for Chief of Police Gabriel Beck: the body of an unidentified woman, naked and completely encased in plastic wrap, stretched across the back-seat of Beckβs car. Hidden in the wrapping is a tape recording of the victimβs last, gasping words, terrifying evidence of the horror endured at the hands of a madman. Soon the body count begins to rise as more victims are found, all gruesomely cocooned, their final pleas also captured on tape.
Determined to catch the...
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