He put down the picture, rubbing the bridge of his nose. It was late, and he wasn’t getting anywhere. Tomorrow, after the M.E. was finished with her, they’d know more. Like her name. And why she’d been dumped there.
Maybe her murder wasn’t connected to the others. She was younger, softer somehow. And the others had been found at the scene. This girl had obviously been moved. Still, there were commonalities between the three. The use of a knife, the missing appendages, and the impersonal savagery of the rape.
But there was one major difference.
The music.
When the first two women had been found, there’d been music playing, an endless recording of soft swelling notes, a love song forming a poignant counterpoint to the brutal violence that had ended their lives. He looked down at the picture of the third woman.
There’d been no music—at least not in the alley-way—but then she hadn’t actually died there, and D’Angelo had the feeling that when they found the murder site, they’d find the music. It was a signature of sorts, the reason the press had dubbed the perp the Sinatra Killer.
He blew out a breath, and leaned back in his chair, closing his eyes. One thing was definitely for certain; there was twisted logic in every move a guy like that made. Which meant he was still out there somewhere, waiting, watching, and sooner or later, he was going to strike again.
The only real question was when.
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Praise
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
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Epilogue
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