Relative Malice (Detective Kendall Halsrud #1)
Marla Madison
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
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· 14 ratings · 388 pages · Published: 09 Jan 2013
When four family members are found dead, Detective Kendall Halsrud takes charge of the case. In the murder house, she discovers an empty crib with blood drops next to it on the wood floor. The family, a father, mother, teenage daughter, and young son have been fatally shot . . . but where is baby Philly?
A killer confesses . . .
The desperate search to find the child derails when a man is arrested for the murdering of the family and claims to have killed the baby. Suspecting he had an accomplice, Kendall isn’t convinced he’s telling the truth.
Amid a maze of secrets and murder . . .
Refusing to give up on finding the child, Kendall persists in unearthing the family’s secrets. With the help of a hacker turned spurious fortune-teller and a former cop hired by the missing baby’s uncle, she discovers a furtive pedophile ring is planning on buying and sharing a baby. Can she stop them while there's time to save Philly?
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