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A Killer's Essence

A Novel

Dave Zeltserman
4.2
(5)
Pages
240
Year
2011
Language
English

About

Stan Green is a jaded New York City cop assigned to the most shocking homicide of his career-and he finds only one witness, a neurologically damaged recluse subject to demonic hallucinations. Then the murderer strikes again. Stan's best hope is a man who claims to be surrounded by ghoulish apparitions. And there's just a chance this witness isn't insane, but instead terrifyingly perceptive . . .

Dave Zeltserman's grisly crime novel is backgrounded by the 2004 ALCS playoffs, when the Red Sox triumphed over the Yankees. A knuckle-whitening, surprising, and compelling trip into Stan's obsession with a brutal case, this serial-killer mystery is Zeltserman's darkest, most gripping work yet.

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"A doozy of a doom-laden crime story…"
The Washington Post
"Zeltserman's lean but muscular style, so evident in A Killer's Essence and The Caretaker of Lorne Field, is just as sharply honed here . . . Riveting."
The Boston Globe
"This eerie thriller deftly blurs the lines between madness and the perception of reality."
The Star-Ledger

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