{"product_id":"ashes-to-ashes-9780593356364","title":"Ashes to Ashes","description":"She writes the kind of thrillers that keep readers and critics awake all night. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe grabs you with a story as frightening as your worst fears, as chilling as your unspoken secrets. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe is \u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/b\u003e bestselling writer Tami Hoag, today's most exciting master of suspense. \u003cb\u003eAshes to Ashes\u003c\/b\u003e is her most terrifying novel yet...read on... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome killers are born. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome are made. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor him, the question is irrelevant. The taste for murder has always been present, prowling the edge of his consciousness like a hungry wolf. In a wooded Minneapolis park, he performs his profane ceremony. He arranges the body to his satisfaction. He pours the accelerant, anointing the dead. Then he lights the match. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ashes to ashes.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe newspapers have dubbed him the Cremator. He has already claimed three lives. And he won't stop there. He has a plan for greatness. Only this time there is a witness. A teenage runaway with a dubious identity and a murky past, Angie DiMarco has seen the face of the killer in the flickering light of the funeral pyre. Now the police have Angie, but Angie isn't talking. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEnter Kate Conlan. She knows all too well the dark side of the human heart. Once an up-and-coming FBI agent, she left the Bureau under a cloud of scandal. Now, instead of catching criminals, she helps their victims and protects witnesses. The job of advocate suits her just fine--until she's assigned to Angie. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNot even Kate can tell if the troubled youth is a reluctant witness, a potential victim, or something more troubling still. Her superiors are interested only in badgering Angie for a lead, because the Cremator's latest victim may be the daughter of Peter Bondurant--an enigmatic billionaire businessman with power to influence the way the case is handled. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBondurant pulls strings and gets Special Agent John Quinn brought to the case. The FBI's ace profiler of serial killers, Quinn shares a painful past with Kate and hides a secret that is driving him toward madness. He is a man on a ragged edge, and yet his insatiable need to do justice drives him to catch the Cremator--no matter what the cost to himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmid a frenzy of public hysteria, politics, and media attention, Kate is confronted with the most difficult role of her career--and her life. For she is the one woman who has what it takes to stop the Cremator...and the one woman he wants next.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTami Hoag's novels have appeared regularly on national bestseller lists since the publication of her first book in 1988. She lives in Virginia with her husband and a menagerie of pets.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bantam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50629607096594,"sku":"9780593356364","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7c157ddd-235c-4fd8-babf-e1279cd0be71.jpg?v=1732732425","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ashes-to-ashes-9780593356364","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}