The 12th victim
By: Katia Lief
Publisher: Clipper Large Print
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781471213120
Subjects: Karin Schaeffer (Fictitious character); Fiction
Other titles: Twelfth victim
Description: The police call him the working girl killer. But no woman is safe ... The 11th victim is found only a short distance from Karin Shaeffer's house. At the crime-scene she discovers a local prostitute stabbed to death, the knife left embedded between her breasts. It is the signature of the 'Working Girl Killer' - a serial killer who has terrorised New York City for the last three years. The police are clueless but when Karin's best friend becomes the lead investigator, she finds herself drawn into the investigation as a consulting detective. But next time the killer is going to strike all too close to home ...
Notes: Originally published: as Vanishing girls. New York: Harper; as Twelfth victim. London: Ebury.
Table of contents: title: The police call him the working girl killer. But no woman is safe ... The 11th victim is found only a short distance from Karin Shaeffer's house. At the crime-scene she discovers a local prostitute stabbed to death, the knife left embedded between her breasts. It is the signature of the 'Working Girl Killer'; title: a serial killer who has terrorised New York City for the last three years. The police are clueless but when Karin's best friend becomes the lead investigator, she finds herself drawn into the investigation as a consulting detective. But next time the killer is going to strike all too close to home ...