Punish the Deed (Lucinda Pierce Series #2)

by Diane Fanning

Overview

A Lucinda Pierce Investigation - When childrens charity worker Sharon Flemming is brutally murdered and a note found by her mutilated body bears the words I was left behind, Lucinda Pierce must track down this violent killer before he strikes again. And when a series of notes are also left on her car windshield, she knows this has got personal. Comfort comes from a most unlikely source but can only lead to further complications . . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780727867070
Publisher:	Severn House Publishers
Publication date:	03/01/2009
Series:	Lucinda Pierce Series , #2
Pages:	217
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 5.70(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Diane Fanning is the co-editor of "Red Boots & Attitude" and the author of "The Windwalkers," Her stories and essays have been published in the "Baltimore Sun" and other periodicals. She is the Executive Director of Another Way Texas Shares, a non-profit federation. Fanning lives in New Braunfels, Texas with her husband, cat, and dog.

Editorial Reviews

As Greensboro, VA, homicide lieutenant Lucinda Pierce (The Trophy Exchange) searches for the killer of a children's charity worker, it soon becomes apparent that the note "I was left behind," found near the body, has a deeper meaning than first thought. Pierce, struggling with issues involving her disfigured face and her disregard for rules and orders, finds herself working with the FBI. Fanning injects enough edge-of-the-seat action to keep readers turning pages. Recommend this to patrons who enjoy J.A. Konrath and Jan Burke. [See Prepub Mystery, LJ11/1/08.]

—Jo Ann Vicarel

Library Journal

A serial killer targets do-gooders. Greensboro Homicide investigator Lucinda Pierce, still wary of the reconstructive surgery that's been recommended to realign facial features mangled in the line of duty, is called in when Sharon Fleming, executive director of Communities in Schools, is found butchered, each of her fingers broken and repositioned postmortem. Another murder with a similar pattern, this time in nearby Washington, D.C., brings FBI Special Agent Jake Lovett on board. The crime-fighting duo promptly get down to business, tentatively flirting while searching for clues. Two that Lucinda ignores are the notes left on her windshield, even the one that says "I was left behind," and the silver Honda in her rearview mirror. Then a prior murder in Maine comes to light, complete with broken fingers, I-was-left-behind note and a victim from the nonprofit sector, and Lucinda and Jake alert care-workers that they may be in a killer's sights. When their prediction proves true for charity dental technicians who become hostages, it's up to Lucinda to effect a rescue. Heavy on the cliches, but Lucinda (The Trophy Exchange, 2008, etc.), who stoically ignores ugly taunts about her facial deformities, fends off both an armed serial killer and an even better armed underling's wife with so little effort that she surely qualifies for superhero status.

Kirkus Reviews

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