Skin Deep
Language: English
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, New York, 2008
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Hard Back 1st Ed full # line Published: 2008 448p Someone is killing the most alluring women of Boston. Someone whose keen eye for beauty masks a twisted mind. Someone who insinuates himself into his victims? lives and leaves them with nothing but an elegant black stocking knotted around their necks. Homicide detective Lt. Steve Markarian must stop the killer before another vulnerable woman is sacrificed?possibly even his own estranged wife. Beset with loneliness and addictions, Steve pursues leads all over greater Boston?from the haunts of blue-blooded Brahmins, to seedy strip joints, to mansions by the sea, to the halls of prestigious universities, to the offices of his own precinct?and to the recesses of his own heart, only to discover that he himself may actually be the killer. In this stunning psychological thriller, bestselling author Gary Braver explores the nature of beauty, how women may strive to achieve it, and the forbidden yearnings that kill in its name.
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- Title
- Skin Deep
- Author
- Gary Braver
- Publisher
- Tom Doherty Associates, New York
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0765309750
- ISBN 13
- 9780765309754
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
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About the Author
Gary Braver is the bestselling author of six critically acclaimed thrillers including Elixir, Gray Matter, and Flashback, which was recipient of the 2006 Massachusetts Honor Book Award for Fiction--a first for a thriller--and which in a starred review Publishers Weekly called an exceptional medical thriller. His novels have been translated into five languages, and three have been optioned for movies.
Under his own name, Gary Goshgarian, he is an award-winning professor of English at Northeastern University where he teaches courses in Modern Bestsellers, Science Fiction, Horror Fiction, and Fiction Writing. He has taught fiction-writing workshops through out the United States and Europe for over twenty years. He is the author of five college writing textbooks.
Gary Braver is the pen name of Gary Goshgarian. He teaches fiction writing as well as courses in popular literature as a professor of English at Northeastern University.
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