02784cam a2200409 i 4500 10230051 TxGeo 20050922120000.0 161028t20172006||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781101966112 pbk. 1101966114 pbk. (OCoLC)961249323 TxGeo rda Hoag, Tami. Prior bad acts : a novel / Tami Hoag. Bantam Books premium mass market edition. New York, NY : Bantam Books, 2017. ℗2006. 500 pages ; 19 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Kovac and Liska ; 3 Includes excerpts from The Bitter Season and The Boy. It was a crime so brutal, it changed the lives of even the most hardened homicide cops. The Haas family murders left a scar on the community nothing can erase, but everyone agrees that convicting the killer, Karl Dahl, is a start. Only Judge Carey Moore seems to be standing in the way. Her ruling that Dahl's prior criminal record is inadmissible raises a public outcry--and puts the judge in grave danger. When an unknown assailant attacks Judge Moore in a parking garage, two of Minneapolis's top cops are called upon to solve the crime and keep the judge from further harm. Detective Sam Kovac is as hard-boiled as they come, and his wisecracking partner, Nikki Liska, isn't far behind. Neither one wants to be on this case, but when Karl Dahl escapes from custody, everything changes, and a seemingly straightforward case cartwheels out of control. The stakes go even higher when the judge is kidnapped--snatched out of her own bed even as the police sit outside, watching her house. Now Kovac and Liska must navigate through a maze of suspects that includes the stepson of a murder victim, a husband with a secret life, and a rogue cop looking for revenge where the justice system failed. With no time to spare, the detectives are pulled down a strange dark trail of smoke and mirrors, where no one is who they seem and everyone is guilty of Prior Bad Acts. 20241014. Police Minnesota Minneapolis Fiction. Mass murder Minnesota Minneapolis Fiction. Women judges Minnesota Minneapolis Fiction. Judges Crimes against Minnesota Minneapolis Fiction. Kidnapping Minnesota Minneapolis Fiction. Minneapolis (Minn) Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Legal fiction (Literature.) Kovac and Liska ; 3. QS5