The First Cut

✍ Scribed by Emley, Dianne

• Book ID: 108591479
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 237 KB
• Series: Nan Vining 1
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

For two minutes she was dead.

The assailant was vicious, the attack brutal--and it left her lifeless . . . until her pulse fluttered and she jolted awake. Now, a year later, detective Nan Vining is still questioning her strength, her safety, even her sanity: Can she ever again be the cop--and mother--she was before? And will her attacker someday return to finish the job, before she can track him down herself?

Shaky but determined, Vining rejoins the Pasadena PD, only to confront a murder case that strikes close to home: A slain policewoman has been discovered beneath the Colorado Street Bridge, her body bruised, her throat slit. Even as Vining struggles to recover her standing within the department, she can't help but feel profoundly drawn to the murdered officer, Frankie Lynde--and she is deeply troubled by the baffling otherworldly visions that haunt her waking hours. Are these mere fever dreams? Or could they be, as Vining's daughter insists, messages from...