TY - BOOK AU - Koontz, Dean R. TI - The crooked staircase T2 - A Jane Hawk novel SN - 9781460756539 U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - HarperCollins, KW - Hawk, Jane KW - Fugitives from justice KW - Fiction KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Secret societies KW - Conspiracies KW - Government investigators KW - Revenge KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - lcgft N2 - Jane Hawk knows she may be living on borrowed time. Battling the strange epidemic of murder-suicides that claimed her husband, and is escalating across the country, has made the rogue FBI agent a wanted fugitive, relentlessly hunted not only by the government but by the secret cabal behind the plot. Jane's enemies are determined to see her dead. or make her wish she was. They can't stop her from drawing a bead on her prey: a cunning man with connections in high places, a twisted soul of unspeakable depths with an army of professional killers on call. But nothing can prepare her for the chilling truth that awaits when she descends the crooked staircase to the dark and dreadful place where her long nightmare was born ER -