Audio Book Description:
August 2005. Amid death and destruction,hurricane-savaged New Orleans has a new dark force to fear. As the rescue effortsunfold, a grisly discovery ismade at one of the massive refrigerator "graveyards." One of these metal hulks contains six human hands-all female, all right hands. The press has dubbedthe unknown perpetrator "The Handyman." But with no way to trace the origin of this refrigerator, and with evidence lost totime and the elements, the casedead-ends. Captain Patti O`Shayis a straight-arrow, by-the-book cop who is assigned to thecase. Her tough, unflinching character is fractured whenher husband and fellow police captain is found murdered-surprised by looters taking advantage of the post-storm chaos.August 2007 Patti, still grieving and disillusioned,gets a call from homicide: skeletal remainshave been unearthed in CityPark. The unknown victim-a female-is missing her right hand.But for Patti, this grave holds something even more shocking. Found beside thevictim`s bones is her husband`spolice badge. Casting aside the very "rule book" by which she has lived her life, Patti is fearless-but so is thekiller. As he stalks her she isforced to question all she believes in, to doubt the code she has lived by...... becauseshe know that if she doesn`tfind The Handyman first, she will becomehis last known victim.
