NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A former star athlete turned deputy
coroner is drawn into a brutal, complicated murder in this psychological
thriller from a father-son writing team that delivers "brilliant,
page-turning fiction" (Stephen King).
Natural causes or foul play? That's the question Clay Edison must answer
each time he examines a body. Figuring out motives and chasing down
suspects aren't part of his beat--not until a seemingly open-and-shut
case proves to be more than meets his highly trained eye.
Eccentric, reclusive Walter Rennert lies cold at the bottom of his
stairs. At first glance the scene looks straightforward: a
once-respected psychology professor, done in by booze and a bad heart.
But his daughter Tatiana insists that her father has been murdered, and
she persuades Clay to take a closer look at the grim facts of Rennert's
life.
What emerges is a history of scandal and violence, and an experiment
gone horribly wrong that ended in the brutal murder of a coed. Walter
Rennert, it appears, was a broken man--and maybe a marked one. And when
Clay learns that a colleague of Rennert's died in a nearly identical
manner, he begins to question everything in the official record.
All the while, his relationship with Tatiana is evolving into something
forbidden. The closer they grow, the more determined he becomes to catch
her father's killer--even if he has to overstep his bounds to do it.
The twisting trail Clay follows will lead him into the darkest corners
of the human soul. It's his job to listen to the tales the dead tell.
But this time, he's part of a story that makes his blood run cold.
Praise for Crime Scene
**
"You could drive yourself crazy trying to figure out who wrote what. . .
. But whoever came up with the fine line, 'When I meet new people,
they're usually dead, ' should pat himself on the back."--The New
York Times Book Review**
"A terrific book . . . Put Crime Scene at the top of your reading
pile."--Bookreporter
"A character-driven, intricately plotted whodunit . . . Mystery readers
will devour the book and look forward to the next father and son
collaboration."--Press Republican
