Ridley Pearson: The Angel Maker (USA 2001)

From the Publisher:
THERE'S NO ONE WIRTING POLICE NOVELS WITH THE PRECISE TOUCH OF PEARSON. HIS STORIES ARE THOROUGHLY RESEARCHED HEARTBREAKING, AND FULL OF ESCALATING SUSPENSE." - Rocky Mt. News

Urban legend. er frightening fact? - "One of the better fictional detectives ever penned," (Book Magazine) Seattle's Lou Boldt, and forensic psychologist Daphne Matthews suspect illegal organ harvesting is behind recent assaults on teenage runaways. The trail leads them down dark streets and darker corners of the mind, as they find themselves pursuing a twisted surgeon with his own ideas of morality ald social justice.

Packed with action, The Angel Maker takes the reader on a joy ride from Seattle's homeless to an abandoned homesteading cabin and kennel hidden away in the forests of the Northwest. Daphne Matthews, intent on rescuing a teenage runaway from the madman's scalpel, puts her own life on the line finding herself face to face with the Angel Maker.

Ridley Pearson: The Angel Maker. Hyperion Books, ISBN: 0786890088 (June, 2001), 368 p., $5.99.

Ridley Pearson: The Angel Maker (USA 1994)

From the Publisher:
DEEP IN THE HEART OF A HEARTLESS CITY...
She could have been any homeless, nameless young woman trying to escape Seattle's mean streets. Except the sixteen-year-old who stumbled into the shelter that night was missing a lot of blood, and something even more vital... SOMEWHERE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH...
For police woman Daphne Matthews, it was bizarre enough to call on the best cop she knew... especially when a search turned up more than she knew... especially when a search turned up more mutilated corpses. For ex-homicide detective Lou Boldt, it was the kind of case he couldn't resist. And for Elden Tegg, healer, only path to salvation... and immorality... LURKS THE ANGEL MAKER.
And now, as the body count rises, tow cops try one last, desperate ploy. But they'd better start praying. Because it will take a miracle to stop a killer who's about to make one final, unforgettable contribution to humankind...

Ridley Pearson: The Angel Maker. Island Books, ISBN: 044021632X (June, 1994), 432 p., $5.99.

Ridley Pearson: The Angel Maker (UK 1994)

From the Publisher:
Elden Tegg. Veterinary surgeon turned human butcher. He operated to test his skill. Now he'll murder to prove his power...

Working with teenage runaways on the streets of Seattle, police psychologist Daphne Matthews uncover, a disturbing trail of mutilation among the women in her care...

But only after teaming up with police sergeant Lou Boldt does she come face to face with the evil running loose: a monster who hones his surgical skills on vulnerable street kids - and sells their organs to the highest bidder. A human black market?

The Angel Maker will stop at nothing. Not even a human heart.

Ridley Pearson: The Angel Maker. Pocket Books, ISBN: 067185187X (January, 1994), 341 p., £4.99.

Ridley Pearson: The Angel Maker (USA 1993)

From the Publisher:
At The Shelter, no one judges the runaway teens who come in off the rainy Seattle streets. Volunteers, like police psychologist Daphne Matthews, want only to rescue and rebuild lives. Being a cop, Daphne thinks she's seen it all. But, as bestselling author Ridley Pearson's latest edge-of-the-seat thriller opens, what she encounters in a sixteen-year-old girl chills her in a way she thought a case no longer could.

Daphne turns for help to the best cop she knows, a man with creative instincts and an appreciation for forensic lab techniques-Lou Boldt. Boldt isn't a cop anymore; he's playing jazz piano in a downtown club and doing his best to forget the past. When Daphne puts her evidence on the table, Boldt is hooked. By all appearances someone is illegally harvesting human organs for transplant. Soon the two cops -- and former lovers -- are drawn into the dark vortex of a high-tech, highly profitable underground industry-and into the mind of its founder, a doctor gone very, very bad... a man who began by trying to save patients unable to get donor organs through legitimate channels... a healer who let ambition, or something more sinister, turn him into a killer The case gets personal when Daphne's friend and fellow Shelter volunteer Sharon Shaffer is abducted, and evidence left behind indicates she's about to become the killer's next organ donor. Daphne and Boldt have only days, hours, minutes to save Sharon from a killer about to make one final, unforgettable contribution to humankind. Meanwhile a woman caught in a nightmare of captivity rattles the bars of a secret makeshift prison, too far from civilization for anyone to hear her scream.

Written with a researched realism so convincing that the story could have come from today's headlines, Ridiey Pearsor's The Angel Maker will hold the reader spellbound as it explores the passion to create life, and the power to destroy it -- a novel so shattering, so bizarre, so terrifying that it raises the specter of a future humanity where the question of who will live depends on who must die to ensure it.

Ridley Pearson: The Angel Maker. Delacorte Press, ISBN: 0385301391 (April, 1993), 341 p., $21.95.