Slipping into Darkness: A Novel

ISBN: 0316098663

Author: Blauner, Peter

Condition: New

Twenty years ago Detective Francis X. Loughlin solved his first huge case. He pushed a seventeen-year-old boy to the breaking point and sent him up for murder. But now theres been another death, another pretty, young doctor viciously killed in her pristine Manhattan apartment - and a startling link to that long-ago conviction.All fingers point to the convict Julian Vega, no longer so young, out of jail on a technicality, and no longer the eager-to-please youth Loughlin first met in the interrogation room. But this is no open-and-shut case. When Loughlin arranges for a DNA test, the results blow up in his face. Soon there are bulldozers in the graveyard, exhuming twenty-year-old remains and renewing a familys deep-seated mourning. Because theres one thing in this case that Loughlins now sure of - the blood under the latest victims fingernails definitely doesnt belong to Julian Vega. It doesnt even belong to a man. It belongs to Allison Wallis, the woman murdered twenty years before.Two men circle each other from opposite sides of the law. Both have something to prove, both are only too aware of their own limitations.

• police; crimes against women; physicians; judical error; ex-convicts