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LAWRENCE DE MARIA'S ACCLAIMED THRILLERS AND MYSTERIES HAVE "A TOUCH OF BOURNE, A DASH OF BOND AND A SPRIG OF SPENSER". (John Crudele, the New York Post)

The death of a spider monkey in a South American rain forest is the prelude to a series of apparently unsolvable human murders in Canada and the United States.

Only when private investigator Alton Rhode is approached by an elderly Catholic priest who may know more than he lets on does the killer have anything to worry about.

Nagged by doubts about the priest's story, but urged on by an unlikely underworld ally, Rhode starts to piece together the mystery.

His hunt for the truth in SIREN’S TEARS spans thousands of miles and makes him a target of a diabolical killer who uses sex and science to seek her perverted revenge on men.

MORE CRITICAL ACCLAIM

“While De Maria may have been an award-winning financial reporter, he's an awfully good fiction writer as well.” (THE NAPLES DAILY NEWS)

“What is really almost beyond belief is how easily De Maria has transitioned from the dry world of financial reporting to the wild and lavish world of novel writing.” (THE COLLIER CITIZEN)

De Maria is “a master of thriller dialogue.” (THE WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Winner of an Associated Press award for crime reporting, Lawrence De Maria is a Pulitzer-nominated journalist who cut his teeth on financial corruption at The New York Times and Forbes.

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