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Eve Duncan, a forensic sculptor who gives new faces to the victims of violent crime, is pulled into a deadly game when a serial killer begins targeting her work. Each reconstructed skull honors a victim but also brings new threats. The case forces Eve to confront a dark past she thought buried, as the killer’s victims become eerily familiar. Together with Atlanta detective Joe Quinn and their adopted daughter Jane, she must risk her own life to stop a murderer whose twisted motives combine vengeance and perversion.
First publish date: 2004
Genre: Suspense/General Suspense
Authors: Iris Johansen
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