When her sister is killed during a scientific study, an anthropologist fakes her own suicide and hides in Miami to prevent herself from becoming the latest victim in a string of ritualistic murders, while police detective Jimmy Paz tries to figure out how witness memories are being erased. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
Jane is a fugitive who, using the name Dolores, works as a file clerk in Miami--though she used to be an anthropologist. She is on the run from her unbalanced husband, who practices magic the couple learned on an expedition to study a tribe in Mali. When a serial killer strikes the area, Jane recognizes the murders as rituals she witnessed in Mali, and wonders if her husband is involved. In addition, she has befriended the daughter of a child whose mother died in an accident that was indirectly Jane's fault. And the detective on the serial-killer case is the dashing Iago "Jimmy" Paz....
- Genre: Mystery + Crime, Fiction + Literature Themes
- Subgenre: Religion + Beliefs, Legal + Courtroom + Crime, Literary Genres + Types of Novels, Suspense, Work + the Workplace, Conflicts + Dualities, Action + Thrillers
- Publisher: Avon A
- Pages: 476
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: January 1, 2009
- Date Published: January 1, 2009
- Author: Michael Gruber