Sacrifice - Softcover

Newly married and newly promoted, you'd think Lieutenant Jane Candiotti of the San Francisco Police Department should be feeling great. But her marriage partner, Inspector Kenny Marks, is also her work partner, whom she now supervises. The two are still feeling their way around this strange new dynamic when a prominent local philanthropist is murdered, and several less newsworthy citizens are killed in quick succession. Jane struggles to give equal time to all the crimes despite pressure from high places to concentrate on the "important" victim, and she becomes increasingly convinced that the deaths are all connected. An angry, rich widow; an inept new employee; and ongoing friction with the irritable chief add to her problems as the death toll mounts, and the killer starts to strike much too close to home. The plot in Phillips' third Candiotti novel may play a secondary role to Jane's personal and professional challenges, but this is still a solid entry in a popular series. Carrie Bissey
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