| Mystery insiders have long savored Alan Russell. He has alway sbeen regarded as a great storyteller and a master at spinning apiut. His last novel, Multiple Wounds, was a hauntingtale of psychoingical suspense, nominated for boththe Anthony and Macavity awards for best mysterynovel of the year. Now, with Shame, Russell provesonce again that he is among the elite writers of sus-pense, creating a terrifying serial killer whose victimsinclude not only the dead bat also his survivors.Like John Sanford and Thomas Harris, Rueseil revealswhat lives in the heart of a monster. Here, the mowster is Gray Parker. His execution was major newsand his story even became a bestselling book. For hisson, Caleb, there was no sanctuary. As soon as hewas old enough, Caleb moved away to start his lifeover. Even though Caleb has always hidden the hideous truth about who his father was, when he looks in the mirror, what he sees there makes him fear that some part of his father s evil might live on in him. Now, though, it s as if his secret has escaped into the world. Bodies have started turning up, marked in the same way that his father once marked them. And when all the evidence points toward him, the only thing Caleb can think to do is run far and fast. The one person who believes in his innocence is the only woman ever to survive one of his father s attacks-- Maryeiizabeth Une. She s the same woman who became a celebrity far telling his father s story. These two must become unlikely allies to answer two soul- searing questions: Who is doing this and why?. And who is Caleb, really, when you cut through the shame? |
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