3 THRILLERS - REICHS, BROWN & SANDFORD EXC COND.

3 THRILLERS

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1.   DEVIL BONES by Kathy Reichs.

Charlotte, North Carolina.  One of the town's oldest neighbourhoods.  An underground chamber is exposed in a seedy, dilapidated house with sagging trim and peeling paint...  Called to the scene is forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan.  Fighting her claustrophobia, and the unmistakeable sweet, fetid odour of rotting flesh, Tempe descends the precariously steep, makeshift wooden steps.  What awaits her below is a ritualistic display: slain chickens and a goat - and a skull, ghostly pale, rests on a pedestal, the lower jaw missing, the empty orbits staring back at her.  Two cauldrons stand nearby, beads and antlers suspended overhead.  Age, race and sex indicators confirm the skull as that of a young, black female - but how did she die, and when?  Then, just as Tempe is working to determine the post-mortem interval, another body is uncovered.  The corpse is headless, the torso carved with satanic symbols.  Led by a preacher-turned-politician, citizen vigilants blame Devil-worshippers and begin a witch-hunt, intent on revenge.  As Tempe struggles to keep her emotions and imagination from running away with her, she makes another chilling discovery.  Even she couldn't have predicted where this case would lead, or the shocking secrets it would eventually uncover.  And the more Tempe learns, the more she seems to be putting herself in danger...

2.  THE WITNESS by Sandra Brown.

On a rain-slick road, a car crash leaves only three survivors - an infant, a man clinging to his life, and Kendall Deaton.  But she doesn't dare reveal their true identities - or her own - to the authorities.  Instead, she plans her immediate escape.  Her perilous flight begins.  The best public defender in Prosper, South Carolina, Kendall had stumbled upon the town's chilling secret, making her marriage into a powerful family a living hell.  Now Kendall, a terrified mother trying to protect her child and a reluctant witness to evil, is surrounded by forces that will stop at nothing to protect what is theirs.

3.  CHOSEN PREY by John Sandford.

Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport watched impassively as yet another body was unearthed.  It was clear to him that a routine murder investigation had become the search for a monster.  Associate Professor James Qatar takes in the gruesome scenes on his television in growing agitation, as he realises that his thin veneer of safety and respectability is being scratched away.  Obviously, it would be prudent to cease his activities for a time, but the necks are too pretty, the desire too strong.  So he kills again.  But they are watching now, and his fear makes him careless.  As Lucas Davenport's case comes together, James Qatar's world begins to fall apart, and a deadly game is joined, one that neither player can afford to lose. Lucas Davenport: brilliant, implacable, and determinded to stop the killings.  And James Qatar: vain, damaged, and capable of anything when he has cornered his chosen prey.

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