FROST, SCOTT

Lieutenant Alex Delillo must face a dangerous serial killer in Scott Frost's fourth book for Headline.It starts with a body found lying in the centre of the Rose Bowl s dark field, surrounded by thousands of empty seats. For Lieutenant Alex Delillo, it s the beginning of a nightmare. The sixteen-year-old girl is found wrapped in a sleeping bag and as Delillo opens its she discovers that the body is frozen solid. The mystery deepens further when her partner, Harrison, recognises her as the daughter of a prominent lawyer who disappeared three years before. A search of the stadium reveals the only other clue a copy of an etching by the nineteenth century artist Francisco Goya. It s a picture of a dead woman in the exact same pose as the frozen young girl. The girl s death is swiftly followed by others. All of the victims are prominent in the community and each body is posed as a copy of a Goya painting. For Delillo and Harrison, one thing is clear their killer is treading in the footsteps of a great artist who despised the Establishment and now it seems no-one in power is safe. Not even their boss, Chief Chavez

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