Postcard Killers Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (1986) Jared Diamond presents the biologist's

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Postcard Killers Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (1986) Jared Diamond presents the biologist'sNYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each cafe through the eyes of his daughter's killer. Kanon's daughter, Kimmy, and her fiance were murdered while on holiday in Rome. Since then, young couples in Madrid, Salzburg, Amsterdam, Berlin, Athens and Paris have been found dead. Little connects the murders, other than a postcard sent to the