Kovac and Liska · Book 4
The 1st Victim
- Published
- 1 January 2013
- Pages
- 60
- ISBN-13
- 9781409150794
- Type
- novella
About this book
The 1st Victim, a novella slotted at book 3.5, appeared in 2013 at just 60 pages -- far shorter than any of the full novels around it. It introduces the New Year's Day case that The 9th Girl, published the same year, goes on to resolve.
Its place in Kovac and Liska
The 1st Victim is book 4 in the Kovac and Liska series. It follows Prior Bad Acts. It is followed by The 9th Girl. See the full Kovac and Liska reading order.
Minneapolis homicide detectives Sam Kovac -- an old-school, cynical veteran -- and Nikki Liska -- a sharper-tongued single mother balancing the job with custody battles -- work as a partnership across Tami Hoag's longest-running suspense series. Ashes to Ashes (1999) and Dust to Dust (2000) launch the pair against a serial killer targeting Minneapolis women; after a six-year gap, Prior Bad Acts (2006) returns them to a case built around a legal technicality that frees a suspect, and the series then accelerates…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781409150794