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Deeper than the dead / Tami Hoag.

ISBN: 052595130X (hardcover)
ISBN: 9780451230539 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780525951308 (hc)
ISBN: 9780451230539 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780525951308 (hardcover)
Physical Description: x, 421 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Dutton, c2010.

Summary:

California, 1984. Detective Tony Mendez, fresh from a law enforcement course at FBI headquarters, is charged with discovering the identity of a brutal, calculating psychopath. His search pushes him ever deeper into the lives of three children, and closer to the young teacher whose interest in recent events becomes as intense as his own.

California, 1985. Four children, running in the woods behind their school, stumble upon a partially buried female body, eyes and mouth glued shut. Close behind the children is their teacher, Anne Navarre, shocked by this discovery and heartbroken as she witnesses the end of their innocence. What she doesn’t yet realize is that this will mark the end of innocence for an entire community, as the ties that bind families and friends are tested by secrets uncovered in the wake of a serial killer’s escalating activity. Vince Leone, a pioneering FBI investigator called in from Washington to consult on the case, is charged with interpreting that pattern. He's using a brand-new technique - profiling - to develop a theory of the murders, a strategy that pushes him even deeper into the lives of the four children and closer to the teaher whose bond with her traumatized students puts her on a collision course with the killer. As new victims are discovered and the media scrutiny of the investigation bears down on them, both Vince and Anne are unsure if those who suffer most are the victims themselves or the family and friends of the killer - unaware that someone very close to them is a brutal, calculating psychopath whose reign of terror is only getting started.