Peter Pan must die : a novel / John Verdon.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2014]Edition: First EditionDescription: 440 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0385348401
- 038534841X (e-book)
- 9780385348409
- 9780385348416 (e-book)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Mystery | Verdon John | DG 4 | Available | 33111007664937 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In John Verdon's most sensationally twisty novel yet, ingenious puzzle solver Dave Gurney brings his analytical brilliance to a shocking murder that couldn't have been committed the way the police say it was.
The daunting task that confronts Gurney, once the NYPD's top homicide cop: determining the guilt or innocence of a woman already convicted of shooting her charismatic politician husband -- who was felled by a rifle bullet to the brain while delivering the eulogy at his own mother's funeral.
Peeling back the layers, Gurney quickly finds himself waging a dangerous battle of wits with a thoroughly corrupt investigator, a disturbingly cordial mob boss, a gorgeous young temptress, and a bizarre assassin whose child-like appearance has earned him the nickname Peter Pan.
Startling twists and turns occur in rapid-fire sequence, and soon Gurney is locked inside one of the darkest cases of his career - one in which multiple murders are merely the deceptive surface under which rests a scaffolding of pure evil. Beneath the tangle of poisonous lies, Gurney discovers that the truth is more shocking than anyone had imagined.
And the identity of the villain at the mystery's center turns out to be the biggest shock of all.
Helping his former partner to investigate the murder of a politically ambitious real-estate developer, retired NYPD detective Dave Gurney is targeted by a murderous cop and a Greek assassin.