Sins of the Flesh

Product Description
[MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case. NOTE: The MP3-CD format requires a compatible audio CD player.]

[Read by Mark Peckham]

Deadly secrets and a terrifying killer in this nail-biting thriller from the author of
The Thorn Birds. In the next installment of this ''compelling, passionate, and gritty'' (
Daily Mail, London) suspense series, police captain Carmine Delmonico is on the trail of not one but two killers.

It's August 1969 in the sleepy college town of Holloman, Connecticut, and police Captain Carmine Delmonico is away on vacation. Back at home, first one, then two anonymous male corpses turn up -- emaciated and emasculated. After connecting the victims to four other bodies, Sergeant Delia Carstairs and Lieutenant Abe Goldberg realize that Holloman has a psychopathic killer on the loose. Luckily, Carmine decides to come back from vacation early. --Carmine's team begins to circle a trio of eccentrics, who readily admit to knowing all the victims, but their stories keep changing. They share family ties, painful memories, and a dark past. One of them is a new friend of Sergeant Carstairs, as is the respected head of the mental hospital, who has been doing groundbreaking work rehabilitating one very difficult patient who is now her trusted assistant. When another vicious murder rocks Holloman, Carmine faces the revelation that two killers are at large with completely different modus operandi, even as he barely escapes being next in the body count. Suddenly, the summer isn't so sleepy.

A riveting mystery series by an author of astounding range and skill, Colleen McCullough's Carmine Delmonico books take you back to an age of classic police work, before DNA analysis and computers.
Sins of the Flesh is her finest work yet, pitting her beloved hero against every cop's nightmare scenario in a plot that turns on the sort of science that McCullough herself knows so well.
Review
''McCullough's fifth Captain Carmine Delmonico novel will be welcomed by readers who just love that creepy feeling . . . Fans should enjoy the precomputer, pre-cell phone police work.'' --
Publishers Weekly

''Summertime is not so easy in 1969 Holloman, CT, as Capt. Carmine Delmonico returns from vacation to find he must hunt for a killer whose victims turn up emaciated and emasculated. Then murder of a different sort occurs, and Delmonico has two chaotic cases to handle. McCullough's pleasing series continues.'' --
Library Journal
About the Author
COLLEEN McCULLOUGH enjoys worldwide renown, and her novels are bestsellers in a multitude of languages. She is the author of
The Thorn Birds, Tim, An Indecent Obsession, A Creed for the Third Millennium, The Ladies of Missalonghi, The First Man in Rome, The Grass Crown, Fortunes Favorites, Caesar's Women, and other novels. She lives with her husband on Norfolk Island in the South Pacific.