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Valley of bones [electronic resource] : [a novel] / Michael Gruber.

by Gruber, Michael, 1940-

[New York, N.Y.] : Harper Audio, 2005.

Cuban Americans -- Fiction.

Police -- Florida -- Miami -- Fiction.

Miami (Fla.) -- Fiction.

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http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=F28ED2AC-E84E-46C8-983F-9F9F320ED281 This title is available online; click here to access

The setting is Miami. Rookie cop Tito Morales arrives at the Trianon hotel to investigate a routine disturbance call and, to his shock and horror, watches as a wealthy oil man plunges ten stories and impales himself on a nearby fence. Soon Morales is joined by detective Jimmy Paz, famous throughout the city for solving - or at least providing a plausible solution to - the so-called Voodoo Murders that left Miami burning months earlier. Together Paz and Morales enter the hotel and discover in the dead man's room a most unusual suspect, an otherworldly woman by the name of Emmylou Dideroff. She emerges from a prayerlike state and says she wants to confess and asks for a pen and several notebooks. What Emmylou writes is nothing like what Paz expects; he enlists psychologist Lorna Wise in an effort to make sense of things that go beyond Emmylou's explanation of the murder: details of childhood abuse, of other crimes committed, of regular communion with saints ...

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