FINAL SACRAMENT

 

The third novel featuring FBI agent Nancy Kronziac by writer Bill Murphy.

 

Another run-in with domestic terrorists the Bitteroot Woodsmen leaves one of Kronziac's agents dead and an internal inquiry which threatens her whole career.

 

Because of her experience in tracking down killers Eric Klim and Emery Madsen she is drawn into another serial case when a young woman is found murdered and 'posed' in the most bizarre circumstances in her apartment in San Francisco. The first victim is quickly followed by several others, their killer teasing the FBI with a series of baffling clues as to the locations of the bodies.

 

Kronziac is reunited with cryptanalist James Ellstrom and psychologist Fred Stranski in an effort to track the killer and halt the slaughter. However, it is Catholic priest and theologian Fr Michael Raphoe who finally recognises the link between the victims and the symbols of heresy hidden in the paintings of Nicholas Poussin.

 

They must find Gantz before he commits his final act of revenge which threatens more lives, including that of someone very close to her.

 

The book upon which the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 mini-series was based.