Karen Copeland

Dead Ringer Karen Copeland

In Dead Ringer, a suspected criminal wanted for unresolved crimes in Karen Copeland's first novel, Publish or Perish, returns to play a potentially deadly game of cat and mouse with scientist Dr. Annie Watson. Meanwhile, Annie's close friend, Detective Joe Gallagher, and his team are frantically searching for several women who have gone missing under suspicious circumstances from Bonnechere University and the local Cairnsmore area. Even while collaborating for a short period with colleagues at a scientific institution in the Netherlands, Annie inadvertently becomes embroiled in a cold case related to the Cairnsmore abductions, leading the Dutch and Canadian police to work together to solve a frightening mystery involving blackmail, misogyny and murder.