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Mensajes desde el infierno, Meg Gardiner ; traducción de Ana Herrera

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Mensajes desde el infierno

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Meg Gardiner ; traducción de Ana Herrera

UNSUB, 1]

"Hace veinte años, un asesino en serie aterrorizó a toda la bahía de San Francisco con sus crímenes. Caitlin Hendrix lo recuerda a la perfección, porque el psicópata nunca fue atrapado y el caso casi destruyó a su padre, el detective de policía que estaba al mando. Ahora, cuando Caitlin tan solo lleva seis meses en el equipo de Narcóticos, parece que el asesino ha vuelto a actuar de forma despiadada. Sus brutales asesinatos y sus retorcidos mensajes amenazan con hundir la vida de Caitlin en las tinieblas. Pero esta vez ella no está dispuesta a caer en los mismos errores que su padre"--Publisher's websiteCaitlin Hendrix has been a Narcotics detective for six months when the killer at the heart of all her childhood nightmares reemerges: the Prophet. An UNSUB -- what the FBI calls an unknown subject -- the Prophet terrorized the Bay Area in the 1990s and nearly destroyed her father, the lead investigator on the case. The Prophet's cryptic messages and mind games drove Detective Mack Hendrix to the brink of madness, and Mack's failure to solve the series of ritualized murders -- eleven seemingly unconnected victims left with the ancient sign for Mercury etched into their flesh -- was the final nail in the coffin for a once promising career. Twenty years later, two bodies are found bearing the haunting signature of the Prophet. Caitlin Hendrix has never escaped the shadow of her father's failure to protect their city. But now the ruthless madman is killing again and has set his sights on her, threatening to undermine the fragile barrier she rigidly maintains for her own protection, between relentless pursuit and dangerous obsession. Determined to decipher his twisted messages and stop the carnage, Caitlin ignores her father's warnings as she draws closer to the killer with each new gruesome murder. Is it a copycat, or can this really be the same Prophet who haunted her childhood? Will Caitlin avoid repeating her father's mistakes and redeem her family name, or will chasing the Prophet drag her and everyone she loves into the depths of the abyss?

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