Thief of Souls

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Thief of Souls

Author: Ann Benson

Publisher: Delacorte Press

ISBN: 9780440333791

Category: Fiction

Page: 496

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With her acclaimed novels The Plague Tales and The Burning Road, Ann Benson has carved out a unique place on the literary landscape with her fascinating alchemy of mystery, history, and psychological terror. Now this gifted storyteller returns with an astounding tale of two crime waves separated by nearly 600 years. In each, the victims are children. In each, the perpetrator is a man of power and renown. And in each, the pursuit of justice is spearheaded by a woman who has seen the face of evil up close—and whose own life is entwined with a madman’s. In the city of Nantes, in the year 1440, a woman hurries through the cobblestoned streets. Her world of faith, loyalty, and family is buckling under the weight of her suspicions about a dead child . . . and others who may have met the same fate—all at the hands of the same killer—the infamous Gilles de Rais. Soon Guillemette le Drappière, companion to the Bishop of Nantes, is investigating the young nobleman she helped raise from infancy. To unravel the truth, Guillemette must enter a dark realm of power, perversion, bloodlust—and bring to it the unforgiving light of the church she serves. In the city of Los Angeles, in the year 2002, a detective gets the kind of call she dreads most: “My child is gone.” Lany Dunbar, a mother, a cop, and a veteran of human horrors, cannot be prepared for where this search will lead her. For within days, Lany is certain that this missing-child case has exposed the work of a serial killer. At odds with her own department, sure that her killer is becoming more emboldened, Lany zeroes in on a suspect—while a suspect zeroes in on her. . . . Two horrific crime sprees. Two extraordinary eras. The connections between them are at once eerie, compelling, and surprising. Only Ann Benson can weave together the strands of history and suspense with such mastery. Skillfully blending past and present, myth and reality, Benson catapults us from an age when wolves ran wild through the streets of Paris to an age of high-tech criminal profiling. A riveting, rousing adventure through time, history, and forensic science, Thief of Souls introduces two unforgettable characters, separated by centuries, linked by a passionate quest for justice. For in a race to stop monsters from more monstrous crimes, both women will discover a frightening truth: that within a killer is a child, and within a child are seeds of both innocence and evil.
Fiction
Thief of Souls
Language: en
Pages: 496

Thief of Souls

Authors: Ann Benson
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-11-26 - Publisher: Delacorte Press

With her acclaimed novels The Plague Tales and The Burning Road, Ann Benson has carved out a unique place on the literary landscape with her fascinating alchemy of mystery, history, and psychological terror. Now this gifted storyteller returns with an astounding tale of two crime waves separated by nearly 600
Thief of Souls
Language: en
Pages: 288

Thief of Souls

Authors: Brian Klingborg
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-04 - Publisher: Minotaur Books

In Brian Klingborg's Thief of Souls, the brutal murder of a young woman in a rural village in Northern China sends shockwaves all the way to Beijing—but seemingly only Inspector Lu Fei, living in exile in the small town, is interested in justice for the victim. Lu Fei is a
Thief of Souls
Language: en
Pages: 432

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Authors: Darian North
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Signet

After his wife abandons him and their young daughter, Dan Behr eventually begins to enjoy his new life as a single parent, until his daughter is kidnapped and he finds himself confronting the same powerful evil that had lured his wife
Thief of Souls
Language: en
Pages: 320

Thief of Souls

Authors: Neal Shusterman
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-07 - Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

A group of monumentally powerful teens must face an ancient, soul-eating foe in this second book of The Star Shards Chronicles. A cataclysmic explosion has given earthly teens astronomical powers—when the star Mentarsus-H went supernova at their conceptions, the teens absorbed the shattered soul of the star and inherited unimaginable
Thief of Souls
Language: en
Pages: 278

Thief of Souls

Authors: Emma L Adams
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-09 - Publisher:

I'm Liv Cartwright, mage, thief, and unapologetic nerd. Magically talented people like me have two choices: use our powers at the beck and call of the Order of the Elements or be exiled to the realm of monsters. Sounds like an easy choice, right? Not so much. Since my mentor