by Tami Hoag
The newspapers call him the cremator, he kills women in violent ways and then burns the bodies, it has been getting marginal press because he has been killing prostitutes up to this but the third victim, that they know of, is the daughter of a powerful man and things start to get messy for the inves...
Even though this is called the first Kovac and Liska book it's really not. The book focuses on Kate Conlan who is a former FBI agent and her former lover Special Agent John Quinn. These two do appear in "Ashes to Ashes" but after that, I can't even remember if we see them again. This is a pretty goo...
Ashes to Ashes is yet another in a long line of serial killer novels. Based on the way the subject is handled in modern fiction, you would think that every fourth person in the United States is a serial killer. Most serial killer novels I have read are weak. Unfortunately this novel falls into that ...
Kate Conlan has the unfortunate habit of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Such as the first morning back at work from leave, she just has to be the one who spotted the twitchy man. In stopping him, her tights were torn and she received a swollen lip. Just as she reached her office, she ...
Very intense thriller. Kept you guessing the entire way through the book. I liked her style of writing in that it had the complexity of that like Stieg Larsson, Millenium series.
I think Hoag's books are good, not fantastic and a bit predictable. I really no longer seek out her books as I used to do about 10 years ago, but she is an author I would continue to read if one popped up that looked interesting.
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