Ashes to Ashes - A Novel
By Tami Hoag

She writes the kind of thrillers that keep readers and critics awake all night.She grabs you with a story as frightening as your worst fears, as chilling as your unspoken secrets.She isand New York Timesand bestselling writer Tami Hoag, today's most exciting master of suspense.and and Ashes to Ashesand is her most terrifying novel yet...read on...Some killers are born.Some are made.For him, the question is irrelevant.and and The taste for murder has always been present, prowling the edge of his consciousness like a hungry wolf.and and In a wooded Minneapolis park, he performs his profane ceremony.and and He arranges the body to his satisfaction.and and He pours the accelerant, anointing the dead.and and Then he lights the match."Ashes to ashes."The newspapers have dubbed him the Cremator.and and He has already claimed three lives.and and And he won't stop there.and and He has a plan for greatness.and and Only this time there is a witness.and and A teenage runaway with a dubious identity and a murky past, Angie DiMarco has seen the face of the killer in the flickering light of the funeral pyre.and and Now the police have Angie, but Angie isn't talking.and and Enter Kate Conlan.and and She knows all too well the dark side of the human heart.and and Once an up-and-coming FBI agent, she left the Bureau under a cloud of scandal.and and Now, instead of catching criminals, she helps their victims and protects witnesses.and and The job of advocate suits her just fine--until she's assigned to Angie.Not even Kate can tell if the troubled youth is a reluctant witness, a potential victim, or something more troubling still.and and Her superiors are interested only in badgering Angie for a lead, because the Cremator's latest victim may be the daughter of Peter Bondurant--an enigmatic billionaire businessman with power to influence the way the case is handled.Bondurant pulls strings and gets Special Agent John Quinn brought to the case.and and The FBI's ace profiler of serial killers, Quinn shares a painful past with Kate and hides a secret that is driving him toward madness.and and He is a man on a ragged edge, and yet his insatiable need to do justice drives him to catch the Cremator--no matter what the cost to himself.Amid a frenzy of public hysteria, politics, and media attention, Kate is confronted with the most difficult role of her career--and her life.and and For she is the one woman who has what it takes to stop the Cremator...and the one woman he wants next.