The Pacifist
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Last published Sat, Aug 31, 2024
Vivian Duncan is a new detective in the Homicide Department and is usually bullied by the seasoned detectives due to her age and who her father was. She is haunted by the decorated Edgar Duncan, the detective who caught a prolific serial killer in the 1982.
When a woman claiming to be Mary Stratton, a 16-year-old missing in 1965, Vivian and her partner Jason Archer reopen the case and uncover a series of unsolved murders from 1965 to 1980.
Can the woman help the detectives find who tried to kill her? Why resurface now after nearly 30 years? What is the connection to Vivian?
(This story is set in 1995)
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