As spring arrives in the far north of Sweden, a young woman's body surfaces through the breaking ice of the River Thorne. At the same time, visions of a shadowy figure haunt the dreams of Rebecka Martinsson, a prosecutor in nearby Karuna. Could the body belong to the ghost in her dreams? And where is the dead girl's boyfriend?
Ambitious Assistant County Prosecutor and head of the Prosecutor's homicide unit, Stella Marz, finds not only her ambition but her survival threatened when her ex-lover Jack Kovak, a drug lawyer, is murdered and Stella leads the investigation.
Added by: genzianella | Karma: 67.97 | Fiction literature | 16 June 2009
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From the start, Patterson's Women's Murder Club series (1st to Die; Second Chance) has felt like high-concept TV with a smart edge, featuring an appealing and reliable cast of four female crime busters (a cop, a prosecutor, a medical examiner, a reporter) who race along byzantine plot lines humming with blood and sex, romance and heartbreak...