num_pages: 544
description: One rainy night in New York City, outstanding law student Chloe Larson wakes from a terrible nightmare. But it's not a nightmare it's real. Not only is she savagely violated in her own bedroom, Chloe then has to deal with the horror of nobody being brought to justice. Twelve years later a very different Chloe is forging a formidable reputation in the Miami Dade State Attorney's Office, as a vicious serial killer nicknamed Cupid terrorises Florida tearing out his tortured victim's hearts while they're still conscious. When the police stop a driver on the McArthur Causeway and a mutilated corpse is found in his trunk, it seems the hunt for Cupid is finally over. But as Chloe begins the task of prosecuting the suspect, she soon realises that this case will be anything but easy. Because her past is about to force itself on her present and the terror is only just beginning. Sometimes there's a price to be paid for justice. And sometimes that price is awful. Revenge could cost Chloe her sanity. The truth could cost her her life. THE PAST. THE PRESENT. THE TERROR.
language: English
title: Retribution
titlecomplete: Retribution
characters: Chloe Larson, Manny Alvarez, Anna Prado, C. J. Townsend, William Bantling, Dominick Falconetti
genres: Thriller, Crime, Roman, Suspense, Legal Thriller, Romance, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, The United States Of America, Fiction
ratings_count: 9055
places: New York City, New York, Miami, Florida
series: C.J. Townsend
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best First Mystery Novel
publisher: Penguin Books