Verses for the dead
(Book)

After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's NY field office, Pendergast is abruptly forced to accept an unthinkable condition of continued employment: working with a partner. Pendergast and his new teammate, junior agent Coldmoon, are assigned to Miami Beach, where a rash of killings by a bloodthirsty psychopath are distinguished by a confounding M.O.: cutting out the hearts of his victims and leaving them at gravesites belonging to women who committed suicide. But the connection between the old suicides and the new murders is soon the least of Pendergast's worries. As he digs deeper, he realizes the brutal new crimes may be just the tip of the iceberg: a conspiracy of death that reaches back decades. --,Adapted from dust jacket.