num_pages: 480
description: When her sister is killed during a scientific study, an anthropologist fakes her own suicide and hides in Miami to prevent herself from becoming the latest victim in a string of ritualistic murders, while police detective Jimmy Paz tries to figure out how witness memories are being erased. Reprint.
language: English
title: Tropic of Night
titlecomplete: Tropic of Night
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Mystery Thriller, Paranormal, Supernatural, Crime, Africa, Suspense
ratings_count: 1997
series: Jimmy Paz 
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Hammett Prize
publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks