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By Kathy Reichs
Mystery Fiction
Small creatures have been turning up throughout Charlotte, North Carolina, mutilated and displayed in a bizarre manner. Then one day, as Tempe is relaxing at home, she receives a disturbing call: this find could be human.
Tempe visits the scene and discovers that the victim is a dog. Someone’s pet. Tempe agrees to help apprehend the person responsible, and she acquires an equally outraged ally in semiretired homicide detective Erskine ‘Skinny’ Slidell. After consulting a forensic psychologist, they realise the escalating pattern of aggression could result in human victims.
And then it happens: a woman is found disfigured and posed in a manner that mimics the animal killings. When people Tempe cares about begin to go missing, it becomes clear she is being taunted, the target in a sick game that has her racing against a ticking clock to catch the killer before it’s too late…