TY - BOOK AU - Preston,Douglas J. AU - Child,Lincoln TI - Verses for the dead T2 - Pendergast SN - 9781788546775 PY - 2018/// CY - New York PB - Grand Central Publishing KW - Government investigators KW - Fiction KW - Pendergast, Aloysius (Fictitious character) KW - Serial murder investigation KW - Miami Beach (Fla.) KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - lcgft KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - gsafd N2 - After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's New York field office, A. X. L. Pendergast is abruptly forced to accept an unthinkable condition of continued employment: the famously rogue agent must now work 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 - along with cryptic handwritten letters - at local gravestones, unconnected save in one bizarre way: all belonged to women who committed suicide ER -