Flashpoint
Lynn Hightower. HarperTorch, $6.5 (448pp) ISBN 978-0-06-109456-9
A female cop faces off against a female serial killer in Hightower's thriller. (Nov.)
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Reviewed on: 11/04/1996
Genre: Fiction
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