If you like greg iles you'll like this although I don't think it is his best book.
Catherine "Cat" Ferry is a forensic odontologist, a specialist in bite marks and the clues they provide. Her latest case involves a disturbing murder in New Orleans. When another victim dies in the same shocking way-raising fears that a serial killer is at large--Cat blacks out over the victim's mutilated corpse. Suspended from the FBI task force, plagued by nightmares, and at odds with her married lover, Cat finally reaches her breaking point. She retreats to her hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, but her family's secluded antebellum estate provides no sanctuary. When some of Cat's forensic chemicals are spilled in her childhood bedroom, two bloody footprints are revealed. Cat's father was murdered when she was eight years old, but she always believed the crime occurred in the garden outside their home. When she attempts a forensic reconstruction of the decades-old crime, both she and the FBI realize that the murders occurring now in New Orleans are intimately bound up with Cat's family and her past.
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This is a great thriller by one of the greatest writers, Greg Iles. Couldn't read it fast enough. Started out exciting and the action did not stop.
Greg Iles never fails to impress! Unable to put the book down. I'm finally learning not to pick up one of his books, unless I have time to finish it.
Iles's previous thriller, 2003's provocative The Footprints of God, featured an omnipotent supercomputer and an on-the-run duo racing around the globe from North Carolina to Jerusalem. This time, Iles returns to more familiar ground: Natchez, Miss.; New Orleans; and the Mississippi delta, where a serial predator has been killing middle-aged men. Forensic odontologist Cat Ferry, an expert on teeth and the damage they can inflict, is called in by the New Orleans PD to explain the bite marks found on the bodies. Cat, the alcoholic granddaughter of Dr. William Kirkland, owner of the sprawling Malmaison estate and the richest, most powerful man in Natchez, has solved previous murders with her married detective lover, Sean Regan. This time, though, she's pregnant with Sean's baby, and this plus the discovery of old bloody footprints hidden in the carpet fibers of her Malmaison childhood bedroom threaten to plummet her into the depression that's plagued her since she was 15. She thinks one footprint might be hers, made on the night her father died of an ill-explained gunshot wound. Iles weaves in dark strains of child sexual abuse and the resulting repressed memories as Cat searches for the serial killer and for answers about her father's death. This overlong novel lacks the scintillating originality that made Iles's last outing so memorable, but he ties up all the loose ends in an exciting climax.
