Prior Bad Acts: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag returns with a thriller that begins witha shocking crime scene you’ll never forget and follows two relentless detectiveson 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 homicidecops. The Haas family murders left a scar on the community nothing can erase, buteveryone agrees that convicting the killer, Karl Dahl, is a start. Only Judge CareyMoore seems to be standing in the way. Her ruling that Dahl’s prior criminal recordis inadmissible raises a public outcry—and puts the judge in grave danger.

Whenan 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 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 KarlDahl escapes from custody, everything changes, and a seemingly straightforward casecartwheels out of control.

The stakes go even higher when the judge is kidnapped—snatchedout of her own bed even as the police sit outside, watching her Kovacand Liska must navigate through a maze of suspects that includes the stepson of amurder victim, a husband with a secret life, and a rogue cop looking for revengewhere the justice system failed.

With no time to spare, the detectives are pulleddown a strange dark trail of smoke and mirrors, where no one is who they seem andeveryone is guilty of
Prior Bad Acts.