Half a mind

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Lt. Roger Tejeda, Southern California homicide detective, has "the gift"—a sixth sense for catching the most elusive kind of criminal, the serial killer. But Lt. Tejeda is now working with a handicap: half a mind. His last case left him with a skull fracture, lingering blackouts, and lapses of memory, all of which make it that much harder to figure out who would leave him a Christmas box holding a severed head.
In this, the second book to feature Lt. Tejeda and his lover, Kate Teague, HALF A MIND generates stunning intensity and gritty realism as it follows Tejeda and Kate down the bloody trail left by a sex killer—one that leads terrifyingly close to the beachfront mansion heiress Kate calls home.
The severed head left for Tejeda has the M.O. of butcher's helper Arty Silver, who specialized in dismembering the young marines he picked up at a Southern California bar before Tejeda tracked him down. But Arty Silver is in jail awaiting trial. This latest gruesome killing is either... Tovább

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Lt. Roger Tejeda, Southern California homicide detective, has "the gift"—a sixth sense for catching the most elusive kind of criminal, the serial killer. But Lt. Tejeda is now working with a handicap: half a mind. His last case left him with a skull fracture, lingering blackouts, and lapses of memory, all of which make it that much harder to figure out who would leave him a Christmas box holding a severed head.
In this, the second book to feature Lt. Tejeda and his lover, Kate Teague, HALF A MIND generates stunning intensity and gritty realism as it follows Tejeda and Kate down the bloody trail left by a sex killer—one that leads terrifyingly close to the beachfront mansion heiress Kate calls home.
The severed head left for Tejeda has the M.O. of butcher's helper Arty Silver, who specialized in dismembering the young marines he picked up at a Southern California bar before Tejeda tracked him down. But Arty Silver is in jail awaiting trial. This latest gruesome killing is either a copycat crime—or proof that Arty is a wrongly accused man.
Tejeda has his own theory about who is doing the killings, but proving it may put him back in the hospital with his mind permanently damaged. He's willing to take that risk, especially when his daughter's boyfriend— or what's left of him—turns up dead. Besides, Tejeda can't resist his obsession with police work when his old partner Eddie "Spuds" Green asks him to get back in on the action. But it's Kate's daring plan to net a slippery and very dangerous psycho that takes Tejeda and her into the dark insider's circle of rough sex and deadly acts of passion and perhaps fatally close to the evil men do when they get their thrills from terror.
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