{"id":3853,"date":"2014-02-25T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780345549624"},"modified":"2014-02-25T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T05:30:00","slug":"girl-missing-previously-published-as-peggy-sue-got-murdered-by-tess-gerritsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2014\/02\/25\/girl-missing-previously-published-as-peggy-sue-got-murdered-by-tess-gerritsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl Missing (Previously published as Peggy Sue Got Murdered) by Tess Gerritsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780345549624\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/catalog_cover.pperl?9780345549624\" border=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780345549624\">Girl Missing (Previously published as Peggy Sue Got Murdered)<\/a> A Novel<br \/><b>Written by<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/author\/results.pperl?authorid=9925\">Tess Gerritsen<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><b>Paperback<\/b>, 368 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction &#8211; Thrillers; Fiction &#8211; Romance &#8211; Suspense; Fiction &#8211; Mystery &#038; Detective &#8211; Women Sleuths | <b>$9.99<\/b> | February 25, 2014 | 978-0-345-54962-4 (0-345-54962-7)<\/p>\n<p><b>From Tess Gerritsen, <i>New York Times<\/i> bestselling author of the Rizzoli &amp; Isles series, her stunning first thriller!<\/b><br \/> <b>&nbsp;<\/b><br \/>A beautiful young woman&rsquo;s corpse is found dumped in a garbage-strewn alley. Now laid out in the office of medical examiner Kat Novak is an unidentified body that betrays no secrets&mdash;except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the streets, using a deadly drug to do his dirty work. The police are skeptical. The mayor won&rsquo;t listen. One of the town&rsquo;s most prominent citizens, with a missing daughter of his own, is also Kat&rsquo;s chief suspect. As the death toll rises, Kat races to expose a deadly predator who is close enough to touch her.<br \/> &nbsp;<br \/> <b>Praise for Tess Gerritsen<\/b><br \/> &nbsp;<br \/> &ldquo;[The author] has a knack for creating great characters and mysterious plots that seem straightforward but also dazzle with complexity and twists.&rdquo;<b>&mdash;Associated Press<\/b><br \/> &nbsp;<br \/> &ldquo;[Gerritsen] has an imagination that allows her to conjure up depths of human behavior so dark and frightening that she makes Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft seem like goody-two-shoes.&rdquo;<b>&mdash;<i>Chicago Tribune<\/i><\/b><br \/> <b><i>&nbsp;<\/i><\/b><br \/> &ldquo;One of the most versatile voices in thriller fiction today.&rdquo;<b><i>&mdash;The Providence Journal<\/i><\/b><br \/> <b><i>&nbsp;<\/i><\/b><br \/> <b>Previously published as <i>Peggy Sue Got Murdered<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780345549624\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/catalog_cover.pperl?9780345549624\" border=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780345549624\">Girl Missing (Previously published as Peggy Sue Got Murdered)<\/a> A Novel<br \/><b>Written by<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/author\/results.pperl?authorid=9925\">Tess Gerritsen<\/a><br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<p><b>Paperback<\/b>, 368 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction &#8211; Thrillers; Fiction &#8211; Romance &#8211; Suspense; Fiction &#8211; Mystery &amp; Detective &#8211; Women Sleuths | <b>$9.99<\/b> | February 25, 2014 | 978-0-345-54962-4 (0-345-54962-7)<\/p>\n<p><b>From Tess Gerritsen, <i>New York Times<\/i> bestselling author of the Rizzoli &amp; Isles series, her stunning first thriller!<\/b><br \/><b>&nbsp;<\/b><br \/>A beautiful young woman&rsquo;s corpse is found dumped in a garbage-strewn alley. Now laid out in the office of medical examiner Kat Novak is an unidentified body that betrays no secrets&mdash;except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the streets, using a deadly drug to do his dirty work. The police are skeptical. The mayor won&rsquo;t listen. One of the town&rsquo;s most prominent citizens, with a missing daughter of his own, is also Kat&rsquo;s chief suspect. As the death toll rises, Kat races to expose a deadly predator who is close enough to touch her.<br \/> &nbsp;<br \/><b>Praise for Tess Gerritsen<\/b><br \/> &nbsp;<br \/> &ldquo;[The author] has a knack for creating great characters and mysterious plots that seem straightforward but also dazzle with complexity and twists.&rdquo;<b>&mdash;Associated Press<\/b><br \/> &nbsp;<br \/> &ldquo;[Gerritsen] has an imagination that allows her to conjure up depths of human behavior so dark and frightening that she makes Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft seem like goody-two-shoes.&rdquo;<b>&mdash;<i>Chicago Tribune<\/i><\/b><br \/><b><i>&nbsp;<\/i><\/b><br \/> &ldquo;One of the most versatile voices in thriller fiction today.&rdquo;<b><i>&mdash;The Providence Journal<\/i><\/b><br \/><b><i>&nbsp;<\/i><\/b><br \/><b>Previously published as <i>Peggy Sue Got Murdered<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}