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The crime scene was like something out of a horror movie. Billboard tycoon Oliver Mercer has been brutally slain in his home in the Pasadena hills, joined in death by his long-legged trophy girlfriend–both of their bodies displayed in a chilling tableau. The murder scene reawakens terrible memories for homicide detective Nan Vining, who survived her own harrowing attack a year earlier. While tracking the taunting game-player her daughter Emily dubbed T. B. Mann–The Bad Man–she is now working the Mercer case alongside her ex-flame Jim Kissick, stirring up conflicted feelings in Nan. From the ritzy estates of L.A.'s Lamborghini-driving set to a rocky desert outpost where rattlesnakes whisper murder, Nan will risk both her badge and her heart on a case that cuts close to the bone.
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December 30, 2008 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781415947104
- File size: 329308 KB
- Duration: 11:26:03
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Languages
- English
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October 29, 2007
Emley’s compelling follow-up to 2006’s The First Cut
finds homicide detective Nan Vining faced with a grisly double homicide in a Pasadena mansion. Physically but not psychologically healed from the vicious knife attack in The First Cut
, Vining questions Mark Scoville, the homeowner’s business partner, who’s cooperative at first. But when he suddenly clams up and asks for a lawyer, Vining’s suspicions deepen. Discovering recent calls between Scoville and ex-con Jack Jenkins, Vining wonders if Jenkins misinterpreted Scoville’s sour comments about his partner as an invitation to a classic criss-cross murder scheme. Complicating matters, a mute vagrant is arrested carrying disturbing drawings hinting at Vining’s previous attack, as well as pointing to other victims. As she struggles to piece together the Scoville case, Vining also steps up her obsessive, private search for her assailant, whom she now fears is a serial killer. The tease of this ongoing subplot is underdeveloped, though Emley skillfully juggles several other plot lines. Readers will look forward to seeing more of this edgy, unpredictable heroine. -
Opening with the violent murder of Oliver Mercer, venture capitalist, CUT TO THE QUICK weaves the police investigation with a cold case involving the attempted murder of Pasadena Homicide Detective Nanette Vining. Carrington MacDuffie's melodious voice is perfect for Vining as she manipulates suspects and witnesses while seeking murderers and psychopaths. As Vining and her partner, Kissick, follow up leads, their prime suspect, Mercer's business partner, digs himself deeper into a self-made hell with self-delusion and escalating violence. MacDuffie's intonations and nuanced inflections bring out the various facets of each character. It's a story of good versus evil as the police hunt down the killers who hunt police. M.B.K. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
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