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  • Published: 5 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9780091944780
  • Imprint: Ebury Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.99

The 12th Victim




The new Karin Shaeffer serial killer thriller

The police call him... the working girl killer. But no woman is safe...
The 11th victim is found only a short distance from Karin Shaeffer’s house. At the crime-scene she discovers a local prostitute stabbed to death, the knife left embedded between her breasts.

It is the signature of the ‘Working Girl Killer’ – a serial killer who has terrorised New York City for the last three years. The police are clueless but when Karin’s best friend becomes the lead investigator, she finds herself drawn into the investigation as a consulting detective.

But next time the killer is going to strike all too close to home...

  • Published: 5 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9780091944780
  • Imprint: Ebury Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.99

About the author

Katia Lief

Born in France to American parents, Katia Lief moved to the United States as a baby and was raised in Massachusetts and New York.

Katia has published two novels under her maiden name Katia Spiegelman, four novels under the name Kate Pepper and now writes under her married name Katia Lief. As Katia Lief she has published nine novels so far in the USA.

She has a master's degree in literature and creative writing and teaches fiction writing as a part-time faculty member at the New School in Manhattan. Katia lives in Brooklyn with her husband, two children, two cats, and several fish.

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Praise for The 12th Victim

The plotting and timing of this story is absolutely perfect, and the author does an incredible job keeping the reader's interest and making it completely impossible for readers to solve the mystery.

Suspense Magazine

Intense and suspenseful, with a strong, vulnerable heroine and an intriguing plot, this one will keep readers guessing. A riveting read.

Romantic Times