Abandoned in death - j. d. robb

Homicide detective Eve Dallas must untangle a twisted family history while a hostages life hangs in the balance--in Abandoned in Death by New York Times bestselling author J.

The womans body was found in the early morning, on a bench in a New York City playground.

She was clean, her hair neatly arranged, her makeup carefully applied.

But other things were very wrong--like the tattoo and piercings, clearly new.

The clothes, decades out of date.

The fatal wound hidden beneath a ribbon around her neck.

And the note: Bad Mommy , written in crayon as if by a child.

Eve Dallas turns to the departments top profiler, who confirms what seems obvious to Eve: Theyre dealing with a killer whose childhood involved some sort of trauma--a situation Eve is all too familiar with herself.

Yet the clues suggest a perpetrator whod be roughly sixty years old, and there are no records of old crimes with a similar MO.

What was the trigger that apparently reopened such an old wound and sent someone over the edge? When Eve discovers that other young women--who physically resemble the first victim--have vanished, the clock starts ticking louder.

But to solve this case she will need to find her way into a hidden place of dim light and concrete, into the distant past, and into the cold depths of a shattered mind.