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Book Review of The Lesson of Her Death

The Lesson of Her Death
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From the Edgar Award-winning author of The Empty Chair and The Coffin Dancer comes a spellbinding novel that pits a dedicated cop against a brilliantly savage killer in a fight for his life-and everything he cares for.

Bill Corde looked down at the face of the murdered girl and saw there beauty and youth and the horror of sudden death. He could not know, as he stood there at the trampled, muddy scene beside the college girl's corpse, that his own life was about to slip into terror. He could not know that everything he held precious was about to shatter before his eyes. He could not know that his career - and his family -were about to enter a new dimension of danger.

For Bill Corde, the killer is eveything he fears most. For Sarah, Bill's wild, learning-impared daughter, trapped in a world of frustration and ridicule, he may be just the person she's been waiting for. Someone who signs his notes "The Sunshine Man." Someone she can run away with, even a perfect stranger....