Rachel Vasquez is contemplating quitting her boring job doing surveillance when her new boss, private detective Clayton Guthrie, lands the perfect starter case to test his new nineteen-year-old operative. A beautiful Columbia student and Manhattan heiress has been murdered. The gun belonged to her fiance Greg Olsen, an Afghan war veteran, and he's the one taking the rap. Guthrie is hired to get Olsen off, and fortunately he thinks Olsen smells clean of the crime. The detectives search for an elusive eyewitness, a vagrant whose testimony could turn the case around, while also butting heads with the NYPD, cracking doors at Columbia University, and crawling through the city's subterranean tunnels. To complicate matters, the murder could be part of a spree of killings being called the Barbiedoll murders, in which young women are killed for no apparent reason and with no suspect in sight. The NYPD would like to pin them all on Olsen, and his life will depend on Guthrie and Vasquez catching the real killer. Aided by Olsen's war buddy, the detectives gather clues that culminate in a bloody chase of one very determined and surprising killer.
- ISBN10 1250013305
- ISBN13 9781250013309
- Publish Date 14 May 2013
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Minotaur Books,US
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English