Wounds: A Novel
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A man’s lifeless body is found in the fresh soil of San
Diego’s botanical garden. Cause of death is asphyxiation, an easy
call for the medical examiner. More mysterious, however, are the
tiny drops of blood on the victim’s skin, resulting from hundreds
of punctures.
A rabbi leaving his house for work expects a regular day at the synagogue. That quickly changes when he discovers a dead man on his front lawn, clearly beaten to death.
Motorcycle riders racing along the empty streets of an
abandoned military base stumble across another man’s corpse, its
skin revealing long, red-purple marks of a thrashing given with
wood dowels.
The numbers mount. Each week another victim and another
mysterious clue in a game of mass murder the police don’t want to
lose. The solution rests with Dr. Ellis Poe, a religious professor
who only wishes to be left alone with his books and classes.
But evil must be faced, and the choice is no longer his
own.