Grievous Offense: A Donovan Burke Novel

ISBN: 147929571X

Author: Steedle, Nancy

Condition: New

Product Description Detective Donovan Burke has seen his share of corpses, but when he is called to a crime scene where the body of a young woman is propped against the gnarled trunk of a tree at the rivers edge, the hard shell and aloof demeanor hes spent years trying to develop begins to crumble. Clutched in the victims small, lifeless hand is a plastic bag containing clumps of her own, dark brown hair, and scrawled in blood-red paint on her shaved head is the word Sinner. The police begin the investigation treating it as an isolated case, but within a week another young woman falls prey to the sadistic killer the media refers to as The Barber-and he is just getting started. Struggling to find a key that links the victims, Burke, and his partner Hank Slimbaugh, find themselves drawn into a race that began at the rivers edge but will end at their own front door. About the Author Nancy Steedle is the author of numerous poems, short stories, and the mystery novel, Layer of Lies, featuring cake decorator turned private eye, Shelby Drake. Grievous Offense is the second novel in the Donovan Burke series. The first book in the series is Winter Kill. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she lived in Des Moines, Iowa, the setting for most of her books, before moving to South Dakota where she now lives. Visit www.nancysteedle.com for more information.