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Easy Prey

John Sandford

Lucas Davenport

strangulation victim is Alie'e Maison, she of the knife-edge cheekbones and jade-green eyes: as models go, one of the biggest

when they search the house: a second body, stuffed in a closet, with a deep dent in its skull.