Before it's too late : FBI K-9 #2 / Sara Driscoll.

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Title:

Author:

Driscoll, Sara

ISBN:

9781496704436

Edition:

First Kensington hardcover edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Kensington Books, 2017.

Physical Description:

296 p.

Series:

FBI K-9 #2

Abstract:

With a serial killer targetting women resembling FBI special agent Meg Jennings, Jennings and her K-9 partner Hawk race the clock before he can kill again.

Corporate Subject:

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Officials and employees -- Fiction.

Subject Term:

Jennings, Meg (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Police dogs -- Fiction.

Labrador retriever -- Fiction.

Abduction -- Fiction.

Serial murders -- Fiction.

Genre:

Suspense fiction.

Detective and mystery stories.

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In this powerful K-9 crime thriller, FBI Special Agent Meg Jennings and her trusted search-and-rescue Labrador, Hawk, must race against the clock before a diabolical killer strikes again...

Somewhere in the Washington, D.C., area, a woman lies helpless in a box. Beneath the earth. Barely breathing. Buried alive. In Quantico, the FBI receives a coded message from the woman's abductor. He wants to play a game with them: decipher the clues, find the grave, save the girl. The FBI's top cryptanalysts crack the code and Special Agent Meg Jennings and her K-9 partner, Hawk, scramble to the scene of the crime. Cryptic clues lead them astray and by the time they solve the puzzle, it's too late. But the killer's game is far from over . . .

Soon another message arrives. Another victim is taken, and the deadly pattern is repeated--again and again. Each kidnapping triggers another desperate race against time, each with the possibility of another senseless death. That's when Meg decides to try something drastic. Break the Bureau's protocol. Bring in her brilliant sister, Cara, a genius at word games, to decipher the kidnapper's twisted clues. Meg knows she's risking her career to do it, but she's determined not to let one more person die under her and Hawk's watch. If the plan fails, it could bite them in the end. And if it leads to the killer, it could bury them forever . . .

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

In Driscoll's fine follow-up to 2016's Lone Wolf, a killer sends coded messages with clues to the whereabouts of kidnapped women to Meg Jennings of the FBI's Forensic Canine Unit. When the FBI's cryptanalysis unit deciphers the first message, Meg and her black Labrador, Hawk, along with other members of their team, find the first victim buried in a grave in Arlington National Cemetery. The coffin contains both the dead woman and the body of a soldier killed in combat. A second clue leads to a second victim, and several things become obvious. First, the killer is fixated on Meg; second, the victims resemble Meg; third, each clue connects the victim with a site tied to the Civil War. When Meg is suspended from the case, she turns for unofficial assistance to her sister, Cara, a word games expert. The tension rises as the killer targets Meg and her family. Driscoll nicely incorporates various Civil War locations and trivia into the mystery, while Meg and Hawk prove themselves a formidable team that readers will want to see more of. Agent: Nicole Resciniti, Seymour Agency. (Oct.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

A kidnapper is sending FBI Special Agent Meg Jennings a series of ciphers laying out the location of his victims. The women are left alive but just barely. If Jennings doesn't find them in time, they will die. The victims are all dog owners, like Jennings, who is devoted to Hawk, her search-and-rescue Labrador. The women also bear a striking physical resemblance to Jennings. With lives on the line, Jennings breaks Bureau protocol and brings in her brilliant sister, Cara, to decode the kidnappers' twisted clues. Sara Driscoll is a pseudonym for the writing team of Jen J. Danna and Ann Vanderlaan, who also write the Abbott and Lowell Forensic Mysteries.--Keefe, Karen Copyright 2017 Booklist

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