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The Hog Murders (Niccolo Benedetti, Bk 1)
The Hog Murders - Niccolo Benedetti, Bk 1 Author:William L. DeAndrea Snowbound Sparta, New York, is enduring its most severe winter ever when responsibility for a string of seemingly unrelated deaths is claimed by a man who identifies himself only as HOG: — Two schoolgirls are crushed by a falling highway sign. A child is beheaded by an icicle. An old man topples down a flight of stairs while clutching a beer can.... more » A housewife is mashed beneath a cascading display of canned goods in a supermarket. And suddenly, inexplicably a corrupt ex-cop blows his brains out.
As HOG claims one victim after another, an impressive team is gathered: a beautiful psychologist, a smart-aleck private eye, a crusading reporter, and the world-renowned criminologist, Professor Niccolo Benedetti - a man of strange ways and even stranger methods. The town is frozen with terror and the investigators are stymied, until a minor detail brings to light the shocking identity of HOG.« less