Böcker i Theresa MacLean Novels-serien

A grisly death in a quiet suburb pulls forensic scientist Theresa MacLean into the case.A terrifying hostage situation at a downtown bank makes it personal.But the nightmare truly begins when she gets inside.

Seventy-five years ago, the Torso Killer terrorized a city with a horrific spree of murder/dismemberments. He was never caught.It would be impossible for the maniac to still be at large?and active?today . . .A decapitated body has been found in a sealed room in an abandoned building?and forensic scientist Theresa MacLean believes the decades-old corpse is a previously unaccounted-for victim of the legendary psychopath. But the discovery of a second body?newly slain and bearing the unmistakable signature of the Torso Killer?suggests the unthinkable: that a copycat serial killer is following in a madman's bloody footprints.A long-dormant nightmare has been reawakened as a dark history repeats itself. Theresa MacLean's forensic investigation has opened a door into a terrifying past?a door someone desperately wants to keep closed . . . and will keep killing to make it so.

Few tears are shed over the slain corpse of Marie Corrigan, found in the presidential suite at the Ritz-Carlton during a legal convention. A Cleveland defense attorney with a history of falsifying evidence, Corrigan was resoundingly hated by all?colleagues, adversaries . . . even her lovers.Investigator Theresa MacLean is summoned to the crime scene by her daughter, Rachael, who is working the front desk, and immediately knows she is walking into a forensic nightmare?with trace evidence left behind by countless former hotel guests. But the discovery of two more bodies in rapid succession indicates that this nightmare is far worse than she initially imagined, that Corrigan's death was not a crime of passion, but the opening move of a serial killer with a vendetta . . . and that Theresa and her daughter are both frighteningly close to death.