But, her chauvinistic boss, Lieutenant Criver, wants to bring in his own expert, Ralph Rhinehart, an expert runologist who appears on television and has a podcast. While Wilding is Addie’s friend, he’s also a tenured professor at the University of Chicago, and a paid consultant for the police department. And, Evan thinks the runes are part of a poem written by someone who connects themselves with the Vikings. In this case, the stakes left behind appear to contain runes. He studies signs left by a killer, the rituals a killer performs or the writing left at a scene. Their latest victim was found staked to the ground with a slashed throat, a tightened noose around his neck, and a blow to his head. He’s the first one Detective Adrianne “Addie” Bisset calls when she has a ritualistic murder.ĭetective Bisset and her partner, Detective Patrick McBrody, certainly have a weird case. He takes on weird cases for the Chicago Police Department. Now, one of Barbara Nickless’ protagonists in At First Light, Dr. I didn’t read the later books in the series as they drifted into speculative fiction. Robert “Mongo” Fredrickson who had dwarfism. In the late ’70s and early ’80s, I read George C.
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