In Spencer Kope's Whispers of the Dead, A series of bizarre murders—the victims nearly unidentifiable—forces FBI tracker "Steps" Craig to match wits with the most cold-blooded killer he's ever encountered.
A pair of severed feet, stored in a portable a cooler, is found in the house of a Federal judge in El Paso. The victim is unknown. The reason the killer went to such trouble—breaking into the judge's house—and what message he intends to send are both mysteries.
Magnus "Steps" Craig is part of the elite three-man Special Tracking Unit of the FBI. Called in on special cases where his skills are especially indispensable, Steps is renowned for his incredible ability to find and follow trails over any surface better than anyone else. But there's a secret to his success.
Steps has a kind of synesthesia, an ability that allows him to see whatever a person has touched in a unique color—what Steps calls 'shine.' His ability is known to only a few people—his father, the director of the FBI, and his partner, Special Agent Jimmy Donovan. The Special Tracking Unit soon discovers another, earlier victim; again, only the feet were left behind in an icebox.
In Spencer Kope's bloody audiobook—with few clues besides the body parts left behind—Steps and his team find themselves enmeshed in the most difficult case of their careers. And The Icebox Killer has only just begun.
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781427285812
- File size: 324225 KB
- Duration: 11:15:28
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- English
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Reviews
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February 19, 2018
Kope’s disappointing sequel to 2016’s Collecting the Dead takes Magnus “Steps” Craig, an FBI agent with the ability to see an individual’s “shine” (a unique color signature), and his partner in the elite Special Tracking Unit, Jimmy Donovan, to El Paso, Tex., where a federal judge has discovered a pair of severed feet packed in a cheap ice chest in his living room. Steps uses the shine of the person he dubs the Ice Box Killer to follow the culprit on a winding route that takes him and Donovan to the swamps of Louisiana and into the deserts of New Mexico. While Steps’s enhanced visual sense came across as an interesting, if not entirely believable, quirk in the previous book, this time it serves as a plot crutch that allows pieces of the narrative to fall too easily into place. Steps and Donovan both display questionable law enforcement knowledge throughout (e.g., they don’t know how many murders someone has to commit in order to be considered a serial killer), lending the whole novel an air of inauthenticity. Readers will hope that Kope, a Washington State police crime analyst, will put his expertise to better use next time.
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