Verses For The Dead Av Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston

<DIV><B>THE INSTANT #1 <I>NEW YORK TIMES</I> BESTSELLER</B></DIV><DIV><B></B></DIV><DIV><B>Preston & Child return with their bestselling series, confronting FBI Special Agent Pendergast with the one challenge he never expected: a partner.</B></DIV><DIV><br></DIV><DIV>After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI''s New York field office, A. X. L. Pendergast is abruptly forced to accept an unthinkable condition of continued employment: the famously rogue agent must now work with a partner.</DIV><DIV><br></DIV><DIV>Pendergast and his new colleague, junior agent Coldmoon, are assigned to investigate a rash of killings in Miami Beach, where a bloodthirsty psychopath is cutting out the hearts of his victims and leaving them with cryptic handwritten letters at local gravestones. The graves are unconnected save in one bizarre way: all belong to women who committed suicide.</DIV><DIV><br></DIV><DIV>But the seeming lack of connection between the old suicides and the new murders is soon the least o