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This book club edition is in very good condition. Tanning to pages. Very minor bump to base of book spine. A Martin Vail novel. “It begins with a shocking, unsolved murder, a young mother named Linda Balfour is butchered in a small town in southern Illinois. Months later, an investigator in the Chicago DA’s office discovers that she died with a coded inscription printed in blood on the back of her head. It is the exact combination of letters and numbers that was found on the head of Bishop Rushman, the beloved Chicago clergyman who had been slashed and dismembered years before by an angelic-looking altar boy named Aaron Stampler. The same Aaron Stampler whom Vail saved from the electric chair. For the past ten years, Stampler has been locked away in a high-security institution for the criminally insane. And then another altar boy turns up with a similar inscription…” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH