[Alton Rhode Mysteries 03] • Siren's Tears

“More chills and thrills, as an intrepid P.I. hunts a Black Widow serial killer. SIREN’S TEARS, from Pulitzer-nominee Lawrence De Maria, is another winner.” – JOHN CRUDELE (New York Post)

“While De Maria may have been an award-winning financial reporter, he's an awfully good fiction writer as well.” (NAPLES DAILY NEWS); “What is really almost beyond belief is how easily De Maria has transitioned from the dry world of financial reporting to the wild and lavish world of novel writing.” (COLLIER CITIZEN); “A master of thriller dialogue.” (WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS)

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The death of a spider monkey in a South American rain forest is the prelude to a series of apparently unsolvable human murders in Canada and the United States. Only when private investigator Alton Rhode is approached by a suspicious priest does the killer have anything to worry about.

Nagged by doubts about the priest's story, but urged on by an unlikely underworld ally, Rhode starts to piece together the mystery. His hunt for the truth in SIREN’S TEARS spans thousands of miles and makes him a target of a diabolical killer who uses sex and science to seek her perverted revenge on men.

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Winner of an Associated Press award for crime reporting, Lawrence De Maria cut his teeth on financial corruption at The New York Times and Forbes.