Peter Pan Must Die (Dave Gurney, No. 4)

✍ Scribed by Verdon, John

• Book ID: 108446973
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 627 KB
• Series: Dave Gurney, No. 4
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780385348409

✦ Synopsis

In John Verdon's most sensationally twisty novel yet, ingenious puzzle solver Dave Gurney brings his analytical brilliance to a shocking murder that couldn't have been committed the way the police say it was.

The daunting task that confronts Gurney, once the NYPD's top homicide cop: determining the guilt or innocence of a woman already convicted of shooting her charismatic politician husband -- who was felled by a rifle bullet to the brain while delivering the eulogy at his own mother's funeral.

Peeling back the layers, Gurney quickly finds himself waging a dangerous battle of wits with a thoroughly corrupt investigator, a disturbingly cordial mob boss, a gorgeous young temptress, and a bizarre assassin whose child-like appearance has earned him the nickname Peter Pan.

Startling twists and turns occur in rapid-fire sequence, and soon Gurney is locked inside one of the darkest cases of his career -- one in which multiple murders are merely the deceptive...