Xepherus Reads

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,     Tami Hoag once again makes an appearance this week with one of her best thrillers. Yes, I know I saw that a lot, but she tends to outdo herself with each read. Her Liska and Kovac series of thrillers are always a great way to end a reading slump .   9th Girl is the fourth novel in Tami Hoag's widely popular Liska and Kovac crime series. It is published by Penguin-Random House under their Dutton books imprint. Introduced in the Summer of 1999, the crime-fighting duo has solved dozens of crimes all while trying to balance a normal life. Their latest homicide to solve is that of a teenage girl who fell from the trunk of a car on a highway on New Year's Eve. Badly beaten, stabbed, and doused with acid, the girl resembles more of a zombie than a young girl. This earns her the nickname Zombie Doe. What is believed is that she may be the ninth victim of the serial killer known as Doc Holiday. His previous victim had also...