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Search - Ashes to Ashes (Kovac/Liska, Bk 1)
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Book Description:
Some killers are born. Some are made. For him, the question is irrelevant.  The taste for murder has always been present, prowling the edge of his consciousness like a hungry wolf.  In a wooded Minneapolis park, he performs his profane ceremony.  He arranges the body to his satisfaction.  He pours the accelerant, anointing the dead.  Then he lights the match. "Ashes to ashes." The newspapers have dubbed him the Cremator.  He has already claimed three lives.  And he won't stop there.  He has a plan for greatness.  Only this time there is a witness.  A teenage runaway with a dubious identity and a murky past, Angie DiMarco has seen the face of the killer in the flickering light of the funeral pyre.  Now the police have Angie, but Angie isn't talking.  Enter Kate Conlan.  She knows all too well the dark side of the human heart.  Once an up-and-coming FBI agent, she left the Bureau under a cloud of scandal.  Now, instead of catching criminals, she helps their victims and protects witnesses.  The job of advocate suits her just fine--until she's assigned to Angie. Not even Kate can tell if the troubled youth is a reluctant witness, a potential victim, or something more troubling still.  Her superiors are interested only in badgering Angie for a lead, because the Cremator's latest victim may be the daughter of Peter Bondurant--an enigmatic billionaire businessman with power to influence the way the case is handled. Bondurant pulls strings and gets Special Agent John Quinn brought to the case.  The FBI's ace profiler of serial killers, Quinn shares a painful past with Kate and hides a secret that is driving him toward madness.  He is a man on a ragged edge, and yet his insatiable need to do justice drives him to catch the Cremator--no matter what the cost to himself. Amid a frenzy of public hysteria, politics, and media attention, Kate is confronted with the most difficult role of her career--and her life.  For she is the one woman who has what it takes to stop the Cremator...and the one woman he wants next.
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Genres:
- Mystery & Thrillers >> General
- Mystery & Thrillers >> Authors, A-Z >> ( H ) >> Hoag, Tami
- Mystery & Thrillers >> Mystery >> General
- Mystery & Thrillers >> Thrillers >> Suspense
Other Versions of this Book: Paperback, Audio Cassette (Abridged), Audio CD (Abridged), Paperback, Audio CD (Unabridged), Paperback
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3 member(s) found this review helpful.
Enough already with the metaphors, similes and idioms. I get it. In this laborious story, Kate Conlon, a former FBI agent and currently a child advocate is brought in to help a young witness identify a man, the Cremator, whom she saw in a park late at night setting a body on fire. As this very long story goes, it gets quite twisted as to who are the good guys, who are the bad guys and which characters are brought in to confuse the story even more. When the third victim of the Cremator is identified as the damaged daughter of a billionaire the big guns are called in, in the form of Special Agent John Quinn, who just happened to be the ex-lover of Kate. One more twist. And of course, now Kate’s life is in danger. The only thing that kept me reading was that I couldn't figure out who the Cremator was; too many major and minor characters were thrown at you in hopes that something would stick and lead you down the wrong path and yet again you would be bouncing back and forth with possibilities.I don’t think I will be reading this author again since about one-third of this book could have been removed and the story would have flowed much better and as an experienced author, for me, she just couldn’t keep up the momentum
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Ienjoyed this book frombeging to end, one of her finest scrips !
Cynthia M. (Amazing. I haven't read a mystery that wasn't predictable in a long time but this on kept me guessing until the very end! I loved it.
This was such a page turner. I love reading Tami Hoag she know how to get you into the story. This book keeps you guessing until the very end.
This has to be one of the best mysteries I have read in a long time. Tami keeps you guessing in all corners, really hard to put down till it is finished.
Tammy P. (I loved this book! She is an excellent author!!!
Guy M. from CLINTON, MA wrote on 3/19/2007...Hoag has become one of my favorite story tellers.
Tammy E. from MIDDLETOWN, NY wrote on 12/31/2006...Thriller about a killer called the Cremator. An advocate that protects witnesses and victims, named Kate teams up with FBI special agent Quinn to catch the killer.
Barbara M. from MILTON, FL wrote on 12/11/2006...some killers are born. Some are made. For him, the question is irrelevent. the taste for murder has always been present, prowling the edge of his consciousness like a hungry wolf. In a wooded Minneapolis park, he performs his profane ceremony. He arranges the body to his satisfaction. He pours the accelerant, anointing the dead. Then he lights the match.the newspapers have dubed him the Cremator. He has already claimed three lives. And he won't stop there. He has a plan for greatness. Only this time there is a witness. A teenage runaway with a dubious identy and a murky past, but angie isn't talking.Enters Kate, once a FBI agent, which she left under a cloud of scandel. Now she helps their victims and protects witnesses.But Kate knows angie is a reluctant witness. But the last victim was the daughter of Peter Bondurant-enigmatic billionaire business man who wants to influence the way the case is being handeled. amid the frenzy of public hysteria,politics, and media attention, Kate is confronted with the most difficult role of her career-and her life. For she is the one woman who has what it takes to stop the Creamtor...and the one woman he wants next.