Title: Ashes to Ashes
First published: November 1996
Description: The first book in the Kovac / Liska series. (Liska is the wisecracking one). Although, here,  they are not the main characters: it's former FBI agent turned victim/witness Advocate, Kate Conlan and Special Agent John Quinn here battling a mass murderer who first tortures his victims, then anoints them and sets them ablaze.
Subjects: Fiction, Government investigators, Serial murderers, Serial murders, Suspense, United States, United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Psychological fiction, Suspense fiction, Murderers, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Fiction, suspense, Minneapolis (minn.), fiction, Minnesota, fiction, Conlan, kate (fictitious character), fiction, Quinn, john (fictitious character), fiction, Large type books, Cremation, Women lawyers, Homicide, Fiction, thrillers, suspense
Places: Minneapolis, Minneapolis (Minn.), Minnesota
People: FBI, LAPD, Kate Conlan, John Quinn, Kovac, Liska (last 4, fictional characters)
Time periods: late 20th century
LC classification: PS3558.O333 A94 1999b