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Taylor Jackson, a homicide detective in Nashville, faces a chilling case when the notorious serial killer known as The Conductor captures a victim, preserves her in a glass coffin, and slowly starves her to death before displaying her in macabre reenactments of famous artworks. Taylor brings in her fiancé, FBI profiler Dr. John Baldwin, and New Scotland Yard detective James "Memphis" Highsmythe to unravel the killer’s artistic obsession and to prevent the desperate art collection from extending beyond American borders.
First publish date: 2010
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: J. T. Ellison
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