Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska novels
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In the dead of night he performs his profane ceremony. He arranges the body. He pours the accelerant, anointing the dead. Then he lights the match. 'Ashes to Ashes'. The newspapers have dubbed him the Cremator. The city is in uproar. But as he strikes the match over his third victim, he has a witness, a teenage runaway who sees the cremator's face in the flickering light of the pyre. Advocate Kate Conlan struggles to unlock the motivation of her chief...
2) Dust to dust
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Two hard-boiled cops dare to cross the thin and dangerous line that separates good and evil as they risk their lives to investigate the suspicious death of one of their own.
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It was a crime so brutal, it changed the lives of even the most hardened homicide cops. The Haas family murders left a scar on the community nothing can erase, but everyone agrees that convicting the killer, Karl Dahl, is a start. Only Judge Carey Moore seems to be standing in the way. Her ruling that Dahl's prior criminal record is inadmissible raises a public outcry--and puts the judge in grave danger.
4) The 9th girl
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On a frigid New Year's Eve in Minneapolis a young woman's brutalized body falls from the trunk of a car into the path of oncoming traffic. Questions as to whether she was alive or dead when she hit the icy pavement result in her macabre nickname, Zombie Doe. Unidentified and unidentifiable, she is the ninth nameless female victim of the year, and homicide detectives Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska are charged with the task of not only finding out who Zombie...
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"A murder from the past. A murder from the present. And a life that was never meant to be ... As the dreary, bitter weather of late fall descends on Minneapolis, Detective Nikki Liska is restless. After moving to the cold case squad in order to spend more time with her sons, she misses the rush of pulling an all-nighter, the sense of urgency of hunting a murderer on the loose. Most of all she misses her old partner, Sam Kovac. Sam is having an even...