From Amazon.com
You'll probably guess what's behind the murders of mothers and their very young sons long before investigator Joe Lassiter does, but that shouldn't spoil your enjoyment of this exciting and thoughtful new thriller that mixes science and faith in with its action. Lassiter's own sister and beloved nephew are among the victims, who were all patients at an Italian fertility clinic run by a doctor with some unusual ideas about DNA. Why this catches the attention of a dangerous religious order, and whether Lassiter can save one surviving woman and child from their wrath, should take up a good part of your night.
From Library Journal
A doctor's confession to an Italian priest is so disturbing that the priest refuses to absolve him, then closes his church and waits four days for an audience with a cardinal in the Vatican. A few months later, a woman and her young son are gruesomely murdered and their house set on fire. The brother and main character, Joe Lassiter, is determined to find out why. He's pleased that the man who did the killings is in custody in the hospital, badly burned. Then the impossible happens: the killer escapes. So begins a compelling and suspenseful first novel about murder and religious fanaticism. The story moves along at a tremendous pace but is so packed with intriguing tidbits about the information age that it's at once a little unsettling and hard to put down. Great reading right to the very end; for most popular collections.?Shirley Gibson Coleman, Ann Arbor Dist. Lib., Mich.
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