The Girl on the Bridge (McCabe and Savage Series #5)

by James Hayman

Overview

From New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed McCabe and Savage series comes an electrifying new thriller of taut and twisted suspense.

On a freezing December night, Hannah Reindel leaps to her death from an old railway bridge into the rushing waters of the river below. Yet the real cause of death was trauma suffered twelve years earlier when Hannah was plucked from a crowd of freshman girls at a college fraternity party, drugged, and then viciously assaulted by six members of the college football team.

Those responsible have never faced or feared justice. Until now. A month after Hannah’s death, Joshua Thorne—former Holden College quarterback and now a Wall Street millionaire—is found murdered, his body bound to a bed and brutally mutilated.

When a second attacker dies in mysterious circumstances, detectives Mike McCabe and Maggie Savage know they must find the killer before more of Hannah’s attackers are executed. But they soon realize, these murders may not be simple acts of revenge, but something far more sinister.

The Girl on the Bridge is a compelling and harrowing tale of suspense that once read will not easily be forgotten. 

 

 

 

 

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062657213
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	05/09/2017
Series:	McCabe and Savage Series , #5
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	NOOK Book
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	1,171
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

James Hayman is the New York Times bestselling author of the McCabe and Savage thrillers The Cutting, The Chill of Night, Darkness First, and The Girl in the Glass, which combined have sold more than half a million copies.

Editorial Reviews

03/20/2017
In Hayman’s disappointing fifth thriller to feature Portland, Maine, detectives Michael McCabe and Maggie Savage (after 2015’s The Girl in the Glass), a sadistic killer appears to be targeting the perpetrators of a rape. When McCabe is contacted by Rachel Thorne, who claims her husband, Josh, has gone missing while on a business trip, he and Savage are skeptical, but when she shows them a picture of her husband tied to a bed with a sign that says “Rapists Get What Rapists Deserve,” they’re compelled to act. During the investigation, they discover Josh’s connection to Hannah Reindel, who was raped by a group of athletes 12 years earlier when she was a college student and recently committed suicide by jumping off a bridge. Hannah’s husband is a suspect, but McCabe and Savage are dubious. Red herrings lace the melodramatic narrative, which is frequently bogged down by unnecessary procedural details. In addition, the tendency of male characters to comment on women’s looks undermines the author’s effort to sensitively portray the trauma and aftermath of rape. Agents: Meg Ruley and Rebecca Scherer, Jane Rotrosen Agency. (May)

Publishers Weekly

Turning someone else’s terror, pain, and even death into diverting entertainment is at the core of the mystery writer’s craft, and here Hayman offers a stunning lesson in how to do it… Everything goes right here: pacing, mood, and lean, elegant writing.

Booklist

A riveting police procedural that gripped me on page one and never let go. Hayman paints a frighteningly real scenario of every parent’s worst nightmare. The subsequent murders are either revenge or justice — maybe both. A first-rate story-teller at the top of his game.

Robert Dugoni

The Girl on the Bridge combines the pleasures of a classic police procedural with the righteous satisfaction of a revenge thriller, and a great twist. Every crime fiction fan will find something to enjoy here.

Joseph Finder

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