Written in Blood by Diane Fanning
A career homicide detective returns to his small hometown and is soon asked to investigate a series of local murders with a perverse literary twist. Detective Joe Preach Everson, a prison chaplain turned police officer, is coming home. After a decade tracking down killers in Atlanta, and with a reputation as one of the finest homicide detectives in the city, his career derailed when he suffered a mental breakdown during the investigation of a serial killer who was targeting children. No sooner does Preach arrive at home in Creekville, North Carolina--a bohemian community near Chapel Hill--than a local bookstore owner is brutally killed, the first murder in a decade. The only officer with homicide experience, Preach is assigned to the case and makes a shocking discovery: the bookstore owner has been murdered in exactly the same manner as the pawnbroker in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. With the help of Ariana Hale, a law student and bibliophile who knew the victim, Preach investigates the local writer's community. As their questions increase, a second body is found, this time eerily resembling the crime scene in a famous Edgar Allan Poe novella. Preach and Ariana realize that their adversary is an intelligent, literate killer with a mind as devious as it is disturbed. And one or both of them may be his next target.Diane Fanning is a journalist and the author of twelve true crime books who has been nominated for an Edgar Award. She has appeared on the Biography, Investigation Discovery, and Oxygen Networks, as well as 48 Hours, 20/20, and the Today show, and has been interviewed by a variety of radio stations across the United States and Canada. Diane is a native of Baltimore, Maryland, who now resides in Bedford, Virginia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781250102201 |
| ISBN 10 | 1250102200 |
| Title | Written in Blood |
| Author | Diane Fanning |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | St. Martins Press-3PL |
| Year published | 2005-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 422 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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