A deserted street off Brooklyn's Flatbush Avenue...a park on Manhattan's posh Upper East Side...a dressing room in a crowded Fifty-seventh Street boutique. Three young women are found murdered, victims of a serial killer, the only apparent link between them the bizarre and brutal nature of their deaths. Heading up the investigation is NYPD Detective Lieutenant John Vinda, a man who believes that exceptional circumstances require exceptional actions: He is willing to bend the law to break the case and bring down the psychopath roaming the city streets. But the ruthless woman-stalker is as elusive as he is brazen, killing with religious fervor and taunting his pursuers in the provess. Vinda's investigation...and his career...hang by a single shocking thread tying the victims together...a thread that has become a slow-burning fuse aimed straight at the heart of police headquarters... 1992. 379 pages. PB in good+condition.
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