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Dear Ms. Ellison:
November is a “new to me” month where I read about 10 authors that I had never read before. Yours was one of them. All the Pretty Girls is a romantic suspense book with a unique twist. The couple is already dating when the book starts. I think this is a great way for an author to manage the difficult balance of providing the suspense with a romance. Plus, it’s a different place in the courtship to which readers are ordinarily exposed.
Taylor Jackson is a Nashville Homicide lieutenant whose boring caseload is given a jolt by the appearance of a mutilated female corpse. She appears to take another knock on the chin when her lover, FBI profiler John Baldwin, informs her that he murders she is investigating are likely perpetrated by a serial killer dubbed “The Southern Strangler”.
The modus operandi for the Southern Strangler is to cut off the hands of these pretty young victims and carry them to the next murder site. Because the serial killer’s work involves multiple states and hence, multiple jurisdictions, the heavy investigatory work is done …



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