After months in the hospital and a rehab center, Dana returns to the small Indiana town she left to work in Minneapolis.Ĭold Cold Heart begins with Dana still in the hospital and Kovak & Liska making a brief appearance in the first 2 chapters (a continuation from The 9th Girl) where they try to learn the details of what happened. Cold Cold Heart is her struggle to recover from the physical, emotional and psychological trauma she endured. The 9th Girl novel ends with Dana Nolan becoming the only one of Doc Holiday's victims to survive.

When another young woman disappears, the case heats up while the detectives try to find the promising young TV reporter, Dana Nolan before she becomes another victim. Doc Holiday chooses his victims at random, snatching them in one city and leaving them in another, always on a holiday. Not only is she the ninth Jane Doe of the year, but she may be the ninth victim of a vicious, transient serial killer the police call Doc Holiday. The detectives need to find out not only who she is, but who wanted her dead. Unidentified, she is the ninth nameless female victim of the year.

Detectives Kovak & Liska are called to the scene. It is a frigid New Year's Eve in Minneapolis when a body falls from the trunk of a car into the path of oncoming traffic. Therefore, I will review both of these books for you today. They are homicide detectives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Īfter finishing the fourth book in the series ( The 9th Girl), I happened to pick up one of Tami Hoag's standalone books to read next ( Cold Cold Heart) and realized it was a sequel to The 9th Girl. I have been currently re-reading my collection of Tami Hoag mysteries, beginning with my favorite series with characters Sam Kovac and his partner, the wisecracking Nikki Liska whom Sam calls 'Tink' (for Tinkerbell) because she's petite, though tough and determined.

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