Very Bad Deaths by Spider Robinson

A gritty, darkly comic thriller that follows a weary investigator pulled into a hunt for a brutal serial killer whose crimes unravel a tangle of corruption, fanaticism, and human weakness; as the case intensifies, the protagonist confronts moral ambiguity, media spectacle, and the limits of justice, balancing sharp-witted observation and empathetic insight while unmasking the social forces that enable extreme violence.

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