Carmine Delmonico · Book 3
Naked Cruelty
- Published
- 1 January 2010
- Pages
- 393
- ISBN-13
- 9781439178317
- Type
- novel
About this book
Naked Cruelty came out in 2010 at 393 pages, just a year after Too Many Murders, circling back to Holloman's tangled web of Chubb professors, socialites and old-money families that runs through the series.
Its place in Carmine Delmonico
Naked Cruelty is book 3 in the Carmine Delmonico series. It follows Too Many Murders. It is followed by The Prodigal Son. See the full Carmine Delmonico reading order.
Carmine Delmonico is a police captain in Holloman, Connecticut — a fictional Yale-adjacent university town McCullough built specifically for this series — investigating cases that repeatedly implicate the town's wealthy, insular academic and scientific elite. On, Off opens with a serial killer targeting young women connected to Chubb University (McCullough's stand-in for Yale) and dismembering their bodies in a way that points toward someone with genuine medical or research expertise, setting the template for a…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781439178317