All The Pretty Girls

No, please don t. ,br>Three little words, innocuous in their definitions. No great allegories, no ethical dilemmas. No, please don t. ,br>The words echoed through his brain as he sawed, their rhythm spurring his own. When a local girl falls prey to a sadistic serial killer, Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson finds herself pursuing the vicious murderer. The Southern Strangler is slaughtering his way through the Southeast, leaving a gruesome memento at each crime scene the prior victim's severed hand. Ambitious TV reporter Whitney Connolly is certain the Southern Strangler is her ticket out of Nashville; she's got a scoop that could break the case, but has no idea how close to this story she really is. As the killer spirals out of control, everyone involved must face a horrible truth: that the purest evil is born of secrets and lies. A taut, striking debut. Mystery fiction has a new name to watch. John Connolly