Showing The House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey

Pub Date: 2009-05-05 Pages: 336 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins US Spokane. Washington: a bustling city in the Pacific Northwest. cut through by the hurtling whitewater of the Spokane River Falls One afternoon a young womans body is found. buried in a park by the riverbank-then a second. then a third. Before the week is out. Detective Caroline Mabry is plunged into a full-bore hunt for a serial murderer whom Carolines older. more cynical colleagues have nicknamed the Southbank Killer. What follows is a novel of uncommon texture and psychological drama. as Caroline and her troubled mentor. Alan Dupree. bridle under an investigation overrun by headline-grabbing specialists and bean-counting statisticians. As Caroline and Alan negotiate the rocky terrain of the killer- hunting industry. each of them is forced to confront dark truths about our cultures fascination wit...