The 9th Girl

Publisher Marketing:" Kovac had seen more dead bodies than he could count: men, women, children; victims of shootings, stabbings, strangulations, beatings; fresh corpses and bodies that had been left for days in the trunks of cars in the dead of summer. But he had never seen anything quite like this.... "On a frigid New Year s Eve in Minneapolis, a young woman s brutalized body falls from the trunk of a car into the path of oncoming traffic. Questions as to whether she was alive or dead when she hit the icy pavement result in her macabre nickname, Zombie Doe. Unidentified and unidentifiable, she is the ninth nameless female victim of the year, and homicide detectives Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska are charged with the task of not only finding out who Zombie Doe is but who in her life hated her enough to destroy her. Was it personal, or could it just have been a crime of opportunity? Their greatest fear is that not only is she their ninth Jane Doe of the year but that she may be the ninth victim of a vicious, transient serial killer they have come to call Doc Holiday. Crisscrossing America s heartland, Doc Holiday chooses his victims at random, snatching them in one city and leaving them in another, always on a holiday. If Zombie Doe is one of his victims, he has brought his gruesome game to a new and more terrifying level. But as Kovac and Liska begin to uncover the truth, they will find that the monsters in their ninth girl s life may have lived closer to home. And even as another young woman disappears, they have to ask the question: Which is the greater evil the devil you know or the devil you don t?" Review Citations: Library Journal 07/01/2012 pg. 55 (EAN 9780525952978, Hardcover) Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2013 pg. 60 (EAN 9780525952978, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 04/29/2013 (EAN 9780525952978, Hardcover) Booklist 05/15/2013 pg. 18 (EAN 9780525952978, Hardcover) Romantic Times 07/01/2013 pg. 60 (EAN 9780525952978, Hardcover) Entertainment Weekly 06/28/2013 pg. 65 (EAN 9780525952978, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Hoag, Tami Tami Hoag is the #1 international bestselling author of more than thirty books. There are more than forty million copies of her books in print in more than thirty languages. Renowned for combining thrilling plots with character-driven suspense, Hoag first hit the New York Times bestseller list with Night Sins, and each of her books since has been a bestseller. She lives in Florida. Contributor Bio:  Colacci, David David Colacci has been an actor and a director for over thirty years, performing coast-to-coast in lead roles of plays by a variety of playwrights. He has worked as a narrator for over fifteen years. He has won AudioFile Earphones Awards, earned Audie nominations, and been included on Best of Year lists by such publications as Publishers Weekly, AudioFile magazine, and Library Journal. He currently lives in New York with his wife and children.