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Strip Search

by William Bernhardt
Susan Denaker
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Welcome to the world of Susan Pulaski, an unconventional and unusually subversive Las Vegas police behaviorist who’s already been canned once and has never been needed more. In Sin City, someone is ritually murdering handpicked victims, each with dirty secrets in their pasts. The killer’s gimmick: Not only does he leave behind parts of the victims’ bodies, he also writes obscure mathematical formulas–in their blood.
Pulaski doesn’t have a clue what the codes mean. But she knows someone who will. Darcy O’Bannon is a twenty-six-year-old whose autistic savant skills are perfect for unraveling the thinking of Vegas’s most savage serial killer, peering into a numerological mystery that stretches back hundreds of years.
With her own life one spark away from going off the rails, her department turned against her, and the lives of those she cares most about in jeopardy, Pulaski hunts for dangerous prey in the shadow of the Strip–with herself as the perfect bait. The incomparable William Bernhardt brings to life America’s most fascinating city and invites us to join one woman’s fight to stay sane, stay alive, and keep a killer from making the most shocking score of all.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Susan Pulaski

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    August 28, 2007

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415936665
      • File size: 354585 KB
      • Duration: 12:18:43

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      If you're searching for a thriller that's off the beaten path, try this one from William Bernhardt. A serial killer is on the loose, dispatching people in horrific ways and leaving messages in mathematical equations. Behavioralist Susan Pulaski is hired by the Las Vegas Police, her former employers, as a contract worker. (She was fired for boozing.) To add insult to injury, Susan has to work for her archrival, who's just aching to get rid of her for good. With her charge, Darcy, a 26-year-old autistic man, Susan searches for the killer's identity. Susan Denaker's logical sounding voice is highly suited to Pulaski and rings true for savant Darcy as he delivers a plethora of information leading Susan to the killer. A.L.H. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 18, 2007
      Bernhardt’s dysfunctional Las Vegas cop, Susan Pulaski, tracks another maniacal serial killer in this circuitous and graphically violent sequel to 2005’s Dark Eye
      . When the grisly murders—in which the victim is branded and dismembered, and a mathematical equation left at each crime scene—hit Vegas, police chief Robert O’Bannon temporarily rehires widowed ex-police profiler Susan, against the wishes of Lt. Barry Granger, the homicide detective leading the investigation, who despises Susan. The chief’s autistic math-whiz son, Darcy, may be able to crack the killer’s baffling symbols, but O’Bannon warns Susan to keep Darcy on the sidelines. As tensions escalate between Susan and Granger, Susan remains one step behind the mastermind behind the crimes. Distracting lectures on numerology, the Kabbalah and advanced mathematics interrupt the overloaded plot, but the ghastly puzzle comes together in a breathtaking, suspenseful finale.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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