Crooked River: Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child Cozy Core Agent Pendergast reluctantly agrees to

Agent Pendergast reluctantly agrees to visit the crime scene—and

until an unexpected cruelty turns her gift into a weapon of horror and destruction that no one will ever forget

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Crooked River: Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child Cozy Core Agent Pendergast reluctantly agrees to*SIGNED* A startling crime with dozens of victims. Appearing out of nowhere to horrify the quiet resort town of Sanibel Island, Florida, dozens of identical, ordinary looking shoes float in on the tide and are washed up on the tropical beacheach one with a crudely severed human foot inside. A ghastly enigma with no apparent solution. Called away from vacation elsewhere in the state, Agent Pendergast reluctantly agrees to visit the crime sceneand,