<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER * From Tess Gerritsen, bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series, her stunning first thriller!</b><br> <b> </b><br>A beautiful young woman's corpse is found dumped in a garbage-strewn alley. Now laid out in the office of medical examiner Kat Novak is an unidentified body that betrays no secrets - except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the streets, using a deadly drug to do his dirty work. The police are skeptical. The mayor won't listen. One of the town's most prominent citizens, with a missing daughter of his own, is also Kat's chief suspect. As the death toll rises, Kat races to expose a deadly predator who is close enough to touch her.<br> <br> <b>Praise for Tess Gerritsen</b><br> <br> "[The author] has a knack for creating great characters and mysterious plots that seem straightforward but also dazzle with complexity and twists."<b> - Associated Press</b><br> <br> "[Gerritsen] has an imagination that allows her to conjure up depths of human behavior so dark and frightening that she makes Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft seem like goody-two-shoes."<b> - <i>Chicago Tribune</i></b><br> <b><i> </i></b><br> "One of the most versatile voices in thriller fiction today."<b><i> - The Providence Journal</i></b><br> <b><i> </i></b><br> <b>Previously published as <i>Peggy Sue Got Murdered</i></b><br><br><br><i>From the Paperback edition.</i>
