Prior Bad Acts
by Tami Hoag | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0553801988 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0553801988 Global Overview for this book
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A thriller with a crime scene and judge that creates public outcry resulting in the kidnapping of the judge.
Journal Entry 2 by CollegeLady at -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, trades, California USA on Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (6/3/2008 UTC) at -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, trades, California USA
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Tracking number: 9102805213907560753328
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Tracking number: 9102805213907560753328
I picked up this book from the post office today from CollegeLady in CA ... as part of a book trade (for "A is for Alibi" once I finish reading it).
c. 2006 -- 328 pages -- Hardcover -- 4 weeks on the USA Today top-10 Bestseller list:
#5 on 3/11/07
#6 on 3/4/07 and 3/18
#8 on 3/25/07
Jacket Flaps: NY Times bestselling author Tami Hoag returns with a thriller that begins with a shocking crime scene you'll never forget and follows 2 relentless detectives on a manhunt that ends in a chilling confrontation with the essence of human evil. It was a crime so brutal, it changed the lives of even the most hardened homicide cops. The Haas family murders left a scar on the community nothing can erase, but everyone agrees that convicting the killer, Karl Dahl, is a start. Only Judge Carey Moore seems to be standing in the way. Her ruling that Dahl's prior criminal record is inadmissible raises a public outcry -- and puts the judge in grave danger.
When an unknown assailant attacks Judge Moore in a parking garage, 2 of Minneapolis's top cops are called upon to solve the crime and keep the judge from further harm. Detective Sam Kovac is as hard-boiled as they come, and his wisecracking partner, Nikki Liska, isn't far behind. Neither one wants to be on this case, but when Karl Dahl escapes from custody, everything changes, and a seemingly straight-forward case cartwheels out of control.
The stakes go even higher when the judge is kidnapped -- snatched out of her own bed even as the police sit outside, watching her house. Now Kovac and Liska must navigate through a maze of suspects that includes the stepson of a murder victim, a husband with a secret life, and a rogue cop looking for revenge where the justice system failed. With no time to spare, the detectives are pulled down a strange dark trail of smoke and mirrors, where no one is who they seem and everyone is guilty of Prior Bad Acts.
c. 2006 -- 328 pages -- Hardcover -- 4 weeks on the USA Today top-10 Bestseller list:
#5 on 3/11/07
#6 on 3/4/07 and 3/18
#8 on 3/25/07
Jacket Flaps: NY Times bestselling author Tami Hoag returns with a thriller that begins with a shocking crime scene you'll never forget and follows 2 relentless detectives on a manhunt that ends in a chilling confrontation with the essence of human evil. It was a crime so brutal, it changed the lives of even the most hardened homicide cops. The Haas family murders left a scar on the community nothing can erase, but everyone agrees that convicting the killer, Karl Dahl, is a start. Only Judge Carey Moore seems to be standing in the way. Her ruling that Dahl's prior criminal record is inadmissible raises a public outcry -- and puts the judge in grave danger.
When an unknown assailant attacks Judge Moore in a parking garage, 2 of Minneapolis's top cops are called upon to solve the crime and keep the judge from further harm. Detective Sam Kovac is as hard-boiled as they come, and his wisecracking partner, Nikki Liska, isn't far behind. Neither one wants to be on this case, but when Karl Dahl escapes from custody, everything changes, and a seemingly straight-forward case cartwheels out of control.
The stakes go even higher when the judge is kidnapped -- snatched out of her own bed even as the police sit outside, watching her house. Now Kovac and Liska must navigate through a maze of suspects that includes the stepson of a murder victim, a husband with a secret life, and a rogue cop looking for revenge where the justice system failed. With no time to spare, the detectives are pulled down a strange dark trail of smoke and mirrors, where no one is who they seem and everyone is guilty of Prior Bad Acts.
