TY - BOOK AU - Preston, Douglas J, AU - Child, Lincoln TI - Verses for the dead T2 - A Pendergast novel SN - 9781538747209 AV - PS3566.R3982 V47 2018 U1 - 813/.6 23 PY - 2018///. CY - New York : PB - Grand Central Publishing, KW - Pendergast, Aloysius KW - United States KW - Federal Bureau of Investigation KW - Fiction KW - Serial murder investigation KW - Government investigators KW - Miami Beach (Fla.) KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - lcgft KW - Suspense fiction N2 - "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. Pendergast and his new teammate, junior agent Coldmoon, are assigned to Miami Beach, where a rash of killings by a bloodthirsty psychopath are distinguished by a confounding M.O.: cutting out the hearts of his victims and leaving them -- along with cryptic handwritten letters -- at local gravestones, unconnected save in one bizarre way: all belonged to women who committed suicide. But the seeming lack of connection between the old suicides and the new murders is soon the least of Pendergast's worries. Because as he digs deeper, he realizes the brutal new crimes may be just the tip of the iceberg: a conspiracy of death that reaches back decades" -- Front jacket flap ER -