The Deepest Cut

 

 

 

 

The Deepest Cut –- The Third Nan Vining Thriller

 

Back from the dead.

That’s how it feels for Nan Vining: a Pasadena homicide cop, a struggling single mother, and a woman determined to find a brutal madman who had left her for dead a year earlier. Now, in Dianne Emley’s brilliant new thriller, Nan Vining must face the truth: her attacker is still out there and he’s killed at least three other women.

With her teenage daughter, she has given a name to her unknown assailant, T.B. Mann — The Bad Man. And on the job, she breaks rules, steals evidence, building a case file based on the dead certainty that T.B. Mann is obsessed with women who wear uniforms and carry guns, that he hunts them and kills them, after bizarrely adorning them with a pearl necklace.

Nan’s official assignment is solving the murder of an ex-con in a clown suit. At the crime scene, she spots a graffiti tag and becomes sure, against all reason, that T.B. Mann was here, too. But she is fearful to share her suspicions.

Further complicating matters is Nan’s developing relationship with Detective Jim Kissick. In the grip of her secret obsession, she knows that opening her heart means losing control.

Within this sprawling panorama T.B. Mann re-emerges. A terrible chain of events brings Nan to the sudden, horrifying realization that her killer has baited the perfect trap.

Smart and gut-wrenching, deeply felt and passionate, The Deepest Cut startles and astounds from first page to last.