PRIOR BAD ACTS（ISBN=） 英文原版

New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag returns with a
thriller that begins with a shocking crime scene you’ll never
forget and follows two relentless detectives on a manhunt that ends
in a chilling confrontation with the essence of human evil.
    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.
    When an unknown assailant attacks Judge Moore in
a parking garage, two of Minneapolis’s top cops are called upon to
solve the crime and keep the judge from further harm. Detective Sam
Kovac is as hard-boiled as they come, and his wisecracking partner,
Nikki Liska, isn’t far behind. Neither one wants to be on this
case, but when Karl Dahl escapes from custody, everything changes,
and a seemingly straightforward case cartwheels out of
control.
    The stakes go even higher when the judge is
kidnapped—snatched out of her own bed even as the police sit
outside, watching her house. Now Kovac and Liska must navigate
through a maze of suspects that includes the stepson of a murder
victim, a husband with a secret life, and a rogue cop looking for
revenge where the justice system failed.
    With no time to spare, the detectives are pulled
down a strange dark trail of smoke and mirrors, where no one is who
they seem and everyone is guilty of Prior Bad Acts.
    From the Hardcover edition.