by Greg Iles
(2006)
Publisher: Pocket Star
Check Best Price
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases
Dr. Chris Shepard is thirty-six years old, newly married, and well on his way to a perfect life. Or so he believes. But that future is forever cast into doubt the day Special Agent Alexandra Morse walks into his office and drops a bombshell: Dr. Shepard’s beautiful new wife is plotting his murder.
Shepard is so shocked that he almost throws Agent Morse out of his office. Yet once he is alone, doubt begins to gnaw at him. Paranoia magnifies the small cracks in his marital relationship, and soon he can have no peace unless he knows the truth. When Agent Morse reappears, Chris agrees to act as bait to help her unravel the divorce lawyer’s scheme, which may already have cost nine unsuspecting spouses their lives.
At the center of the mystery lies a maddeningly simple question: If these people really were murdered, why can’t the FBI prove it? Rigorous autopsies have uncovered no forensic evidence of foul play, and the police believe no crimes have occurred. As Dr. Shepard and Agent Morse struggle against an invisible adversary, Shepard realizes that he’s working with a desperate woman.
The reason: the killer’s last known victim was Alex Morse’s sister, who from her deathbed accused her husband of murder and extracted a vow that Alex saves her ten-year-old nephew from his father. This has driven Alex to risk both her life and her career to fulfill that vow. But Chris Shepard soon feels desperation of his own. As he probes his wife’s hidden past, he is confronted by the probability that the woman he loves wants him dead.
He has adopted her son and given her everything he has to give, and yet somewhere out there, a killer with the brilliance to outwit the top forensic scientists in the world is closing in on him.
I had somehow missed True Evil until last week, when I read it in 3 days. I think I’ve read all Iles other books to date, but since this book was written prior to the Penn Cage series, which I read when each one was new, I’m wondering about the character Dr Chris Shepard. He was the younger partner of Penn Cage’s father in True Evil. I know in the later books Dr Cage had a partner, but don’t remember who it was, since he didn’t have a big part in those stories. My question is whether Chris Shepard was still a partner in the later Penn Cage Books. I don’t have them in my possession so I can’t look at the books to find the answer.
I had somehow missed True Evil until last week, when I read it in just 3 days. I think I’ve read all Iles other books to date, but since this book was written prior to the Penn Cage series, which I read when each one was new, I’m wondering about the character Dr Chris Shepard. He was the younger partner of Penn Cage’s father in True Evil. I know in the later books Dr Cage had a partner, but don’t remember who it was, since he didn’t have a big part in those stories. My question is whether Chris Shepard was still a partner in the later Penn Cage Books. I don’t have them in my possession so I can’t look at the books to find the answer.