Crime scene | JONATHAN KELLERMAN

JONATHAN KELLERMAN
Crime scene
BALLANTINE BOOKS

Natural causes or foul play? Thats the question Clay Edison must answer each time he examines a body. Figuring out motives and chasing down suspects arent part of his beatnot until a seemingly open-and-shut case proves to be more than meets his highly trained eye. Eccentric, reclusive Walter Rennert lies cold at the bottom of his stairs. At first glance the scene looks straightforward: a once-respected psychology professor, done in by booze and a bad heart. But his daughter Tatiana insists that her father has been murdered, and she persuades Clay to take a closer look at the grim facts of Rennerts life. What emerges is a history of scandal and violence, and an experiment gone horribly wrong that ended in the brutal murder of a coed. Walter Rennert, it appears, was a broken manand maybe a marked one. And when Clay learns that a colleague of Rennerts died in a nearly identical manner, he begins to question everything in the official record. All the while, his relationship with Tatiana is evolving into something forbidden. The closer they grow, the more determined he becomes to catch her fathers killereven if he has to overstep his bounds to do it. The twisting trail Clay follows will lead him into the darkest corners of the human soul. Its his job to listen to the tales the dead tell. But this time, hes part of a story that makes his blood run cold.