![]() But he just keeps going and going and going. A little bit of talking, just to show Kinderman’s knowledge about the concept, would be fine. Once, when he and his assistant Atkins are observing a crime scene, Kinderman just starts sermonizing about birds and bugs and evolution and it just does not add much. But several times throughout, Kinderman goes on these ramblings about the most irrelevant things. Kinderman is described as eccentric, and his colleagues do not always follow his train of thought. ![]() However, it is just not as tightly written as its predecessor. Kinderman is a compelling main character, the murders are gruesome and effective, and the suspense is engaging. Blatty to reproduce the same horrific magic with this book. But the truth behind these murders is far darker, and much closer to home, than Kinderman could have imagined. After a second priest is killed, Kinderman retraces these murders back to a notorious Georgetown criminal called the Gemini Killer, long thought dead. He finds himself pondering the nature of God and evil as, soon, a priest is found murdered in the nearby church. This time, he is faced with the murder of a twelve-year-old boy, found crucified to a makeshift cross. ![]() ![]() Set twelve years after The Exorcist, detective lieutenant Bill Kinderman is still solving cases in Georgetown, Washington D.C. ![]()
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